God Loves to be Found

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled."  - Matt. 5:6

I have this phrase, "God loves to be found..." that has just been washing over my heart these last few days and I felt like it is something worth sharing.  I have to admit, I have tried to be one of those guys who can really get himself organized and focused on developing long-term plans of how I am going to walk out my study life with the Word, goals in prayer, etc.  Well as of the last week or all of that beautiful planning and preparing of the perfect environment to pull off all of those glorious plans has just been blown out of the water...and for good reason I believe.

There are these times that comes along where you walk out a season of life and you have your lists, your plans your intentions of the future, but something is missing.  Everything feels very well aimed and guided, except for...something.  There's a gnawing, we know it, it's down there somewhere...and it's hungry, it's thirsty for something more.

Really this post is nothing more that misery loves company, but in a more holy way perhaps.  God is checking me/us.  It's a pause in the path that He has set aside to come, not in a different direction, but rather deeper into what we've sometimes already claimed to know.  It's an offering from Him to remember, to look back, to return; not because we're backslidden, but maybe because I've slid back in some areas.  At times like these answers are no good, encounter is the only way up and over the wall of distance that seems to stand in the way.  I can't say that I have ever yet encountered another way to overcome this dilemma of internal turmoil.

I feel that I need not words, but rather prayers, pleadings attached to hunger and grace.  Not to pull down some anointed experience, but rather to draw on the One who has loved my soul before I could ever try to earn it back with performance and striving.  I lean to the everlasting arms of Jesus to be the Finisher of my life. The One who will take me to the depths, just as He will the lengths of my life.   These thoughts are really the ramblings of my hunger, but even more so my prayers.  I hope you feel encouraged by them as we reach for what we can't feel or touch to change our lives forever, the only living God.