Godward Thoughts has some more food for thought!
“When I really enjoy God, I feel my desires of him the more insatiable, and my thirstings after holiness the more unquenchable….Oh, for holiness! Oh, for more of God in my soul!”…”To reach forward in the narrow way, for the full enjoyment and possession of the heavenly inheritance. Oh, that I might never loiter on my heavenly journey!” [Read the whole post.]
–David Brainerd
Phil. 3:13-14 “Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
Psalm 42:1-2, 11 “As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.”
Brothers, set your hearts and minds more fully to love God and enjoy Him more and more. Think heavenward. Hope. Press. Delight. Trust. Reach forward. Above all, do not coast!
Lord, give us grace to pursue you with ever increasing fervor! And grant us the “joy of your presence” (Ps. 21:6) more and more. Because of Jesus! Amen.
∼striving for the unity of the faith for the glory of God∼ Eph. 4:3,13 “¢ Rom. 15:5-7