Sometimes I wonder if there is really a desire for Spiritual awakening among Christians, for meeting God where He is, rather than sitting back and waiting for some divine revelation from Him... I wonder because I just don't see that desire to change the heart, to learn to live and love as Jesus did, except in too few instances. Too often it is the temperal, the here and now that captures our attentions; the desire for success, for things, for satisfaction instead of contentment. To love as Jesus did, to be content in our circumstances, indeed is too much work for most of us today. Why, to give up our petty angers, to forfeit our right to get even, to put others ahead of ourselves- it seems like too much work.Yet, when we truly desire a heart for God, when we truly seek after him and begin to experience the natural outflowing of the Holy Spirit through us, those things we clung to so vainly disappear like a breath on the morning chill... To begin to experience loving others like Jesus loves causes a natural outpouring of compassion for our fellow man, a willingness to forgive, to forgo our own desires for the betterment of another. Our desires change, our outlook conforms to that of Jesus Christ, and we become tolerant in our love of our fellow man. We assume the position that it is never about what we can do for God, rather it's all about what He can do through us, if our heart is willing to allow Him to...
We must learn the difference between satisfaction and contentment. We must come to realize that we will never truly be satisfied outside of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, for only He can satisfy the emptiness we all have since Adam broke our community with God; only Jesus can fill the void that we all have that seeks out our purpose here, and seeks to answer what else is there after this? If we find the source of our eternal satisfaction then we can easily find contentment in our temperal setting here on earth. Our contentment is not dependent on our being satisfied, but we can find satisfaction in our contentment, yet often there is discontent once we find ourselves satisfied. Food for thought...
