Yearning for Jesus

Where are you Lord? Come Lord Jesus come! Have you ever just come to a point where nothing or no one else really matters? A point where you are just so consumed by onething and that's the only thing that will satisfy you. Where you are wanting something so bad that you begin to literaly pant for it? That's where I'm at now in my desire for Christ. I love my wife and kids and I know that they love me. I have good job and good friends, a roof over my head, plenty of food to eat, but none of these things and people give me the joy and peace that God gives me through my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He is the only one that.... me. I can't even truly express the way His love touches me,surrounds me,engulfs me,searches me,uplifts me,completes me,gives me hope and causes me to want to love him and others in the same matter.
The problem is I fall short and don't love Him like I should. I don't seek Him like I should. I don't love others like I should and I am reminded of my wretchedness,the blackness of my heart. In light of His goodness and grace, His mercy and forgiveness, His unfailing love towards me which He lavishes upon me unconditionaly, who am I too be unloveing and unforgiving towards anyone. After a brief moment of contemplation I realize that I am not worthy of Him. And because He is so Holy, so righteous, so pure and I am... well me, at times He seems so far away. Yet His graces reaches me where I am and causes me to long for the one who reedemed my soul with His own blood and I cry out where are you Lord. Come Lord Jesus come.

In the absence of God

In the absence of God, there is an absence of all things good and virtuous, that are of any eternal significance. Many temporal deeds of

the most noble sort are manifested in the human experience daily. However, of what long lasting value are they, if not committed with the glory

of God in mind, and the advancement of the gospel of Jesus Christ. They only serve to add to the perpetrator a reenforcing psuedo sense of being

a good person. Without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, we lack the proper understanding and power to exercise true goodness in it's purest form.

The heart that rejects the living God is a polluted wasteland that can neither do good(according to God) nor even ascertain what goodness

is. Jeremiah 17:9 says "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Pure goodness is done in the spirit of selfless-

ness, humilty,and love of God which leads to love of neighbor. It is devoid of pride or self adulation, and seeks not the praise of any man, but from

God alone and to God alone.