but
whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give
him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." John 4:14
Almost every day of my life I am praying
that “a jubilant pining and longing for God” might come back on the evangelical
churches everywhere!
We do not need to have our doctrine
straightened out; we are as orthodox as the Pharisees of old. But this longing
for God that brings spiritual torrents and whirlwinds of seeking and
self-denial—this is almost gone from our midst.
I believe that God wants us to long for Him
with the longing that will become homesickness, that will become a wound to our
spirits, to keep us always moving toward Him; always finding and always
seeking; always having and always desiring!
So the earth becomes less and less valuable
and heaven gets closer as we move into God and up into Christ.
Dare we bow our hearts and say, “Father, I have
been an irresponsible, childish kind of Christian—more concerned with being
happy than with being holy. O God, wound me with a sense of my own sinfulness.
Wound me with compassion for the world, and wound me with love of Thee that
will always keep me pursuing and always exploring and always seeking and
finding!”
If you dare to pray that prayer sincerely
and mean it before God, it could mean a turning point in your life. It could
mean a great door of spiritual victory opened to you!
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