I keep finding myself aching for the Lord. Aching for so much more of Him.
As we walk deeper into resurrection, I keep finding myself with a renewed aching. It never truly left, but so much distraction was in my life that I felt it like a dull ache. Now that the clearing out has happened in my life, I feel the aching so intensely that it’s almost painful.
I want to live in Him.
Right now, as I’m typing, I feel myself wanting to just crawl up into Him. My desire for Him is so strong.
I wonder, do you feel the same?
I’ve had moments where I’ve been so deeply drawn by God that I have felt taken away. There’s a beautiful quiet, white place where He’s taken me. I ache to go there again. I don’t even know where it is or what it’s for, but I do know that He’s there.
We read in the Bible about people being taken up by the Lord. Do you read the Bible and realize that these things really happened? When you read the Bible with the realization that it’s true, wow, there’s a whole lot to take in.
I mean, Elijah outran a chariot! Lazarus was dead then rose again…days later. Enoch never died but was just taken to heaven. John was taken up and that’s where Revelation came from. Mary conceived without having sexual relations with a man. I could go on and on, and these stories show me that nothing is impossible. It also helps me to put things into perspective when God does something that I think is unusual.
All the things that I know have happened because it’s written in the Word, just increase my desire to know God more. To become more intimately acquainted with Him. The King of kings, wants to know us intimately…how amazing is that?
I pray that if you don’t currently ache for more, that you do after today. Oh…that you would ache with the deepest longing, for His presence. That you would ache to know Him and be known by Him. Just ache.
We have each just barely scratched the surface, in regard to knowing God. That makes the Christian walk endlessly fascinating. We could never reach the end of discovering God. He is infinite.
Today, I encourage you to simply stand in awe of Him. I pray we never lose the wonder. Never lose the awe of Who God is and what He’s done. He is simply amazing.
I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know- God knows. And I know that this man- whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows- was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. 2 Corinthians 12:1-5
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for You, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the Living God. When can I go and meet with God? Psalm 42:1-2
365 Days in the Presence 