There’s an inner longing in the human heart (an identity crises) that nothing in the physical world can fulfill. Candy (in all of its forms) appears to be dandy but it usually leaves us feeling empty and often guilty. Culture’s candy can’t create the life you crave.
Is there anything that can heal and satisfy hurting human hearts? Yes! True spirituality (an intimate, personal, self-surrendered relationship with the living God) is the key, and the risen Jesus is the way to that relationship.
If you say you believe in God, but ignore Him in your daily life, your belief may be superficial. It’s too easy to settle for and be satisfied with superficial Christianity.
It’s easy to say you believe in God, but seeking the Lord is costly. It requires that we set aside our personal desires to follow His will — that we replace our ways and our thoughts with His ways and His thoughts.
Our identity isn’t found in own thoughts, feelings, and desires. It’s found in God. When our desire for God distracts us from our personal desires, we begin to seek God and we discover His forgiveness, restoration, mercy, grace, and redeeming embrace through the sacrifice of the risen Jesus Christ. Then by God’s Spirit working within us (and within His Spirit-led community of fellow Christ-seekers), He begins to empower us and align us day-by-day with who He created us to be.
To be unaware that God is calling you closer to Him is to be spiritually blind. Open our spiritual eyes Lord so we can see You, surrender to You, and respond to You day and night.
Look beyond the darkness and the distractions! Truly, deeply, humbly, completely, continually: “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.”
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