LONGING FOR GOD

in #christain-trail7 years ago

Longing for God means to find God, an experiencial knowledge of His person. Psalm 42:1 says "As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for you, O God. This is a comparison and a yearning from the psalmist . The animal's need for water to sustain its life forms a fiting simile for a soul's need of the living God.
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When we learn to long for God, we would develop strong hunger and thirst for God, God delights to satisfy our hunger and thirst for Him (Isaiah 55:1-2) and (John 7:37-38)
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If we truly long for God. We will equally long for two things. First it would prompt us to long for His house(Psalm 27:4) and (Psalm 84:2).In psalm 69:9, the psalmist says , Because zeal for your house has eaten me up. If you truly have a heart devoted to God ,you will never be at ease to stay somewhere when the service is going on in your local assembly. You cant have such a heart and remain a perpetual latecomer to the church programmes, you would also be a contributor not a perpetual consumer.
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Second, longing for God will propmt us to be longing for God's word(Psalm 119:20). It is a sign that you lack a devotional heart, if you always complain of not having time to study your Bible, regularly and punctually attend Bible study sessions and sunday school class in your church. Repent!
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good post, but next time make it more wider or in series and use image that illustrate what you are saying

Thanks you sir, i will make it into series and do a continuation as the Holyspirit directs. Follow me and i would follow back