What do you want?

We live in a time when we can look around us and see the dire thirst of the world around us.  We find ourselves in a world filled with many tempting waters said to satisfy any thirst. In Jeremiah it is said that the people had erred in two ways they had forsaken God, the living water, the source.  Secondly, they had built their own cisterns, ones that were faulty full of cracks and leaks.  Jesus once asked two men who were following him, “What do you want?” It is a question I believe he still bids us to answer. What is it you thirst for? What is your heart’s deepest desire? Is the world you have created to manufacture life and happiness working?  Are you in an unending cycle of grasping and clinging for life that is always seeping out of your grasp?  -unknown

 

 we read Jesus’ own words, that those who give themselves to him will receive a “living water,” the Spirit of God Himself, that will keep them from ever again being thirsty—being driven and ruled by unsatisfied desires—and that this “water” will become a well or spring of such water “gushing up to eternal life” (John 4:14).  Indeed it will even become “rivers of living water” flowing from the center of the believer’s life to a thirsty world (John 7:38).–Dallas Willard

Be Still

Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him-Psalm 37:7

Be still, and know that I am God-Psalm 46:10

Many of us are so busy that we accomplish little of any real value.  We are so consumed by our many possessions that we never experience what it means to have much. Simplicity is God’s grand antidote to a culture of money and madness.  And properly understood and lived out, simplicity is God’s pruning shear, which cuts back the tangled branches of our lives, enabling us to begin living freely, sharing generously, and loving deeply. -unknown

 

 

 

Here I am Lord,  I’ve come to do Your will.  Here am I Lord, in Your presence I am still.