Hey friends. Hope everyone is having a good day and a good week so far. This week I have really been thinking and praying about the desires of our heart, and what it means/looks like for us to desire Christ above ALL other things in this world.
Jesus commands us to love him above ALL other things, to desire him more than we desire anything we could possibly obtain in this earthly life. But how do we know if our Savior is truly the number one priority in our lives and the deepest most powerful desire of our hearts?
Today, friends, I both challenge and encourage you to pray what David prayed in Psalm 139:23-24: “Search me God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting”, (NIV).
We must ask God to search our hearts and reveal to us our most deep and intimate desires. It is when we humbly and genuinely ask our Lord to transform our hearts that he is able to make us more like him, and slowly transform us into the image of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:18: “And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the spirit”, (NIV) (italics added by me).
I want my heart to long for God. I want my heart to long for God more than anything else in the world. I want to know our Lord and Savior more deeply each and every day of my life, so that I might become more and more like him and lead others to him by showing them God’s love.
John 13:34-35: “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another”, (NIV).
Let’s seek God together every day my friends. Let’s make it a goal for ourselves each and every day we wake up to pray and ask God to grow deep within us a desire for him above all other things. Let’s trust and believe God to transform our hearts and our minds to be more like his. Each and every day, let us seek to become more like Jesus so that we may spread his love to the ends of the earth and work together through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit to fulfill the Great Commission.
Matthew 28:18-20: “Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age”, (NIV).
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