What is your heart's desire? All of us have hopes and dreams. All of us have those things which we hold dear in our heart, at the core of our being, our true longings. What is it that your heart truly desires?
This week while reading the Daily Office I come across Psalm 42.
As the deer longs for the water-brooks,
so longs my soul for you, O God.
My soul is athirst for God, athirst for the living God;
when shall I come to appear before the presence of God?
What beautiful and transforming words! Within us, each of us, there is a hunger, and if given the freedom to surface, it would reveal our TRUE desire - that which resides in the innermost place of our soul. But, so often we don't allow ourselves the freedom to let that surface. We stop short, settling for superficial longings and desires. We settle for the desires of the ego rather than the calling of God. We settle for that which will make us temporarily happy rather than profoundly joyful. We settle for imitations rather than the authentic. Bottom line...we settle, and often times we don't even know we're doing it.
God's true desire, God's true longing - that which resides in the inner most place of God's heart - is US. As the deer longs for the water-brooks, so longs God's soul for us. (That's my edit.) Yes, it's true. God's desire is us! God is athirst for us! God longs for us to be intimately in his presence!
Perhaps hard to believe, but God's heart desires US!
What is your heart's desire? Do you desire God? Do you long to be in the presence of God? Is your soul athirst for the living God? Look into your heart and allow that which resides in the innermost place of your soul the freedom to surface Then I pray, may you hear the true longing of your soul and the desire of your heart.
As the deer longs for the water-brooks,
so longs my soul for you, O God.
My soul is athirst for God, athirst for the living God;
when shall I come to appear before the presence of God?
In Christ,
Paul+
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