Yearn

Don't you love it when the song that you are needing to hear comes on the radio at just the right time. God is Good.

This Sunday Bro Ray's sermon was entitled "Today's the Day." He covered two basic choices that every Christian is faced with: Choose to hear God speak or refuse to hear.

Simple as that. Right?

God chose to use something that seemed so simple to wake me up inside. There are sins in my life, big and small, that I have chosen to keep inside. No one knows so whats the big deal? It doesn't change the way that I live. Right?

Wrong again.

God has shown me these last few days, partly because I have chosen to hear, that I stopped growing in my faith long ago. I've been desperately struggling to hold on when His hand has been stretched out the whole time-- easily within in reach.

I want to yearn for God again.

I know it won't be easy. I don't want it to be easy. I want to fight for my faith again. I want to overcome this sin that has had it's claws in my back for so long. And the best part-- God is right beside me.

I've started out simple, trying to stay in constant discussion with God. It's amazing what a simple prayer such as "God, I pray for your strength to overcome the temptations of this world and Satan," can do for my soul. I feel Him beside me and he is glad to be there. Isn't that good to know.

Lord, I want to yearn for you. I want to burn with passion.