Daily devotion – Longing for God!
“My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.” Psalm 84:2
I have a great love for the ocean and have been ‘learning’ to surf for many, many, years! But there is something that is always a hazard, and it does not have to be on days of big surf. It’s called the ‘hold down’. It’s when a wave’s force keeps you pressed under water until your lungs are bursting for air!
As the time ticks away whilst under the hold of the power of the wave, you become desperate to reach the surface and take in the life giving breath of clean air.
You have no other thoughts but quenching your need for air!
That is a clear illustration for what the Bible terms – “to long for God”, to feel unfulfilled without Him. It means we know we desperately need Him, even more than we need air, and we yearn to be filled with His presence.
God wants us to be satisfied with nothing less than Himself. And we are never more fulfilled than when we know Him.
Ask God to give you a new hunger for Him, so you may become filled with “the fullness of Christ.” Ephesians 4:13