And After That What’s Next To Do?

. . . seek, and you will find . . . —Luke 11:9

All you have to do is watch a little television to begin to desire. The media is designed to cause us to want things. And it’s not just the commercials, but the television shows themselves portray people living lives that seem far above and beyond our daily grind. If we can but realize that this picture of life, limits and does not expand, our horizons. If we limit our reach to those things we see in the  media, we cheat ourselves. God intends so much more for us.

Today I begin a Kairos weekend. I will go to the most unlikely of places to find God and His blessings. I know I will see him work in lives apparently “destroyed” by sin and death and He will put life into dry bones. I say this with confidence because I have seen it again and again.

“You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss . . .” ( James 4:3  ). If you ask for things from life instead of from God, “you ask amiss”; that is, you ask out of your desire for self-fulfillment.  Our prayers are pathetic, we seek goods and health and security. Our reach is so far from the possible.  “. . . seek, and you will find . . . .” Get to work— narrow your focus and interests to this one thing. Have you ever sought God with your whole heart.

Father teach me that You are the fulfillment of the desires of my heart.  Help me when I try to substitute the desire you created in me for You with lesser “stuff.” Thank You that You are everything and that You love me enough to want to be the center of my life.

I am truly blessed.

Nick