DO NOT FEEL GUILTY ABOUT taking time to be still in My Presence. You are simply responding to the tugs of divinity within you. I made you in My image, and I hid heaven in your heart.
Dear Jesus, Being still in Your Presence is quite a challenge, partly because we have to fend off guilt feelings. It seems somehow selfish to spend so much time seeking Your Face. However, at a deeper level, it seems like the more important thing to do. We yearn for more than this world can provide. We know heaven will satisfy all those longings perfectly. Yet our seeking hearts look to You even now for a taste of that eternal reality. Amen.
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You were not designed to find total satisfaction in this world, because you were crafted in My image. Heaven is your ultimate home and I placed a bit of heavenly matter in your heart so you would week Me. I delight in your seeking heart. Refuse to feel guilty about something that brings Me such pleasure!
Much of this world's angst is actually a longing for the perfection of heaven. Blatant sin is often a misguided attempt to fill that emptiness. The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so they search for heaven in hellish ways: excesses and perversions of every kind. However, great sinners can be transformed into exceptional Christians when they turn their passionate appetites toward Me. My Love and forgiveness satisfy soul-hunger as nothing else can.
- Jesus
(Dear Jesus / Sarah Young)
Scripture Insight: Psalm 105:4; 2 Corinthians 4:4 and Isaiah 55:2
"Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always"
ReplyDelete(Psalm 105:4 / New International Version)
"The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God"
(2 Corinthians 4:4 / New International Version)
"Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare" (Isaiah 55:2 / New International Version)