Our Deepest Longings

Our Deepest Longings

TODAY'S VERSE "His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him-though he is not far from any one of us. For in him we live and move and exist." Acts 17:27-28 (NLT)

TODAY'S THOUGHT God's purpose has always been that we fellowship with Him. He has built us with what Anne Halley calls our "Core longings for love, security, understanding, purpose, significance and belonging." We all need to have these fulfilled and we were made to have them fulfilled in fellowship with God. The people of Athens were searching for truth. They had a temple filled with a multitude of gods and yet they asked Paul to come and share about Jesus. Paul's message cut to the heart and exposed their deepest longings. He shared that these longings could only be met in God for in God, "we live and move and exist." It is coming to God, fellowshipping in His presence, feeling safe enough to be vulnerable and expose our lack of fulfillment and let Him fill the deep core longings of our heart. We must come to a place where we believe the TRUTH- that when we cry out to God and move toward Him, He hears and responds and meets us and fulfills our need for love, security, understanding, purpose, significance and belonging. Today, come to Him, fellowship with Him. As Paul said, "He is not far from any one of us." Bring Him the deep longings of your heart and find your place in Him.

TODAY'S PRAYER Dear Father, I come today and lay before You my deepest longings for love, security, understanding, purpose, significance and belonging. Thank You that in Jesus Christ all my longings are met. Come fill my heart and help me live, move and exist in You. In Jesus' name. AMEN