I HAVE AWAKENED IN YOUR HEART Strong desire to know Me. This longing originated in Me, though it now burns brightly in you.
Dear Jesus, Thank You for awakening our hearts! Before we knew You, we tried to find life in many different places. Often we would think we had found what we were searching for - only to be disappointed later. After we became thoroughly disillusioned, You reached down and took us into Your own family. Years later, we began thirsting for you: longing to know You at a deeper heart level. We set aside time to meet with You as our living God - vibrantly present with us.
Beloved, when you set out to know Me more intimately, I rejoiced but I wasn't surprised. I had been pursuing you long before you began your quest. I was working in our life experiences, as well as in your heart, mind and spirit. Your desire for a closer walk with Me grew out of My painstaking work in you. I initiated our longing for Me, and your response delights Me.
It is important for you to know Me as the Initiator in our relationship. If you think it is your spiritual disciplines that keep you close to Me, you are at risk. Some days you may skimp on your time with Me or not be able to concentrated well. If you are depending on your own efforts to stay near Me, you will feel distant from Me at such times. But if you are relying on Me - what I have done, am doing, will do - you know My Love for you is always assured. So you can rest in Me: trusting in My unfailing Love, flourishing in My abiding Presence.
- Jesus
(Dear Jesus / Sarah Young)
Scripture Insight: Proverbs 4:23; Psalm 42:2; John 15:5 and Psalm 52:8
"Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life"
ReplyDelete(Proverbs 4:23 / New International Version)
"My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God"?
(Psalm 42:2 / New International Version)
"I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing"
(John 15:5 / New American Standard Bible)
"But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God's unfailing love for ever and ever"
(Psalm 52:8 / New International Version)