Our feelings are fickle and they have the capacity to lead us astray. My experience is a good example of why it’s often unsafe to put too much stock in our feelings. It’s almost a “longing of despair.” Have you ever experienced that? Yet, when I feel distant from him, though I still long for him, I wonder if I’ll ever have again with God what I once had. I almost expect a rich encounter with him. When things are going well in my walk with the Lord, it seems my deeper longing for him will yield great fruit. However, there’s something qualitatively different about the feeling. There is a true sense of longing during such times.Īnd yet, as strange as it sounds, during those times in my life of spiritual draught and depression, I also long for him. The more I am with him, the richer my time with him, the more I discover I want to be with him, the deeper I desire to go in my relationship with him. I feel it when I am spending much time with him in his Word, in prayer and meditation, in worship, in the reading of books by godly authors, and so on. One is when I have been walking closely with the Lord. I believe there are two different circumstances in which I experience this longing. I think I know what it means to thirst for God, to long for him, to hunger for him. Psalm 63:1 – O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
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