Where is your focus? Are you focused on earning God’s favor? If you are “in Christ” you are a new creation and already have his favor. The blood of Christ has earned it for you and there is nothing you can do, Jesus has already done it. Our focus must shift from this conditional earning love mentality to a passionate relationship that worships the infinite wisdom and intimate love of the God of the universe. We must long to be with our Savior. He alone needs to be our God, He alone needs to be our focus, He alone needs to be our desire.
“O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.”
- Psalm 63:1
Jesus described himself as the “living water.” This world will dry you up. At times it can feel like you are walking through a spiritual desert. We are constantly longing for water, to be nourished and filled. We must put our hope in Jesus. We must rest in his love, his truth, his mercy, and his grace.
In his book Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis says, “Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exist.” He goes on to say, “If I find in myself a desire in which no experience in this world can satisfy, the probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” Do you realize you were made for another world? An eternal world where you will be face to face with Jesus Christ. I hope that excites you, I hope that ignites something inside of you. We will continue to desire more than this world has to offer because we were made for the next.
