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A Morning View By the Wood Stove

If you proclaim Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, then I must ask you a question.

Are you seeking the deepest possible intimate relationship with God that you can ever experience on this earth? Because I know what I am about to say to be absolutely true. If you are not and if you are pursuing anything other than God you will not ever be satisfied and ultimately any other relationship will fail. It does not matter how deeply connected with another person you are without God it will fail. Failure may not mean completely walk away, failure can mean that a relationship will not be what it is intended to be and you settle for it because at least it is there, it's the best I can do, it could be worse and for many other reasons. 

We are created to be in relationship with one another. We have many relationships and many depths within those relationships. We have social relationships. We have relationship with many forms of addiction and substitution. We have friends and we have FRIENDS. We have work relationships. We have organizational relationships. We have family relationships. We have intimate Spiritual accountability relationships with others. We have dating relationships. We have marriage relationships. We have many other forms of relationship and all we want is to be loved and fulfilled in each one of those. 

You will NEVER be fulfilled or begin to be fulfilled in any relationship until God is the #1 pursuit of relationship within your heart.

If the desire of your heart is relationship with any other person, then I would suggest to you to forget all others and deeply, passionately and without waiver pursue relationship with the One who Created humanity for relationship. Not only did God create humanity, God created YOU for the best love relationship you can ever imagine. 

By the way, I need to share a side note. It is easier to live shallow and unfulfilled than it is to go deep with God and experience what is available to each one of us. Shallow develops death and depth will bring overwhelming freedom and life in God. That being said, pursuing depth is not easy, in fact it will create pain. But the pain is worth the reward. 

“O God, you are my God;

    I earnestly search for you.

My soul thirsts for you;

    my whole body longs for you

in this parched and weary land

    where there is no water.

I have seen you in your sanctuary

    and gazed upon your power and glory.

Your unfailing love is better than life itself;

    how I praise you!

I will praise you as long as I live,

    lifting up my hands to you in prayer.

You satisfy me more than the richest feast.

    I will praise you with songs of joy.

I lie awake thinking of you,

    meditating on you through the night.

Because you are my helper,

    I sing for joy in the shadow of your wings.

I cling to you;

    your strong right hand holds me securely.”                                     

                                              - Psalm 63:1-8 NLT


I must say, if you read the Morning View or any other devotion and always feel good, you should check your soul..... just a bubble thought. 


Peace?

PB



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