What are you longing for, more than other things? For me, the list is long and changes, depending on what is happening at the time. In a crowd or small group, I can feel lonely and unaccepted, longing for someone to really listen. As I grow older, I wonder if I’ll ever really feel rested ever again! I yearn for peace and calmness between people I know. All these yearnings will one day be resolved. While we wait, we live in tension with the here and now and what is to come.
“Each of us come into this world with longings that we cannot find in any other way than Jesus. We see in part, experience partially in the here and now, awaiting for Him to fill the hole in our hearts.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 - “ He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.”
1) There are things like the longing to go home,
2) The longing to be wanted,
4) The longing to live an undivided life,
4) The longing to be loved without condition,
t5) The longing to live without fear and anxiety,
6) The longing to be intimately connected to God,
7) The longing to be forgiven for what we've done,
8) The longing to find community,
9) The longing to feel called to a life of purpose,
- 10) The longing to live forever in the new heaven and new earth.”
- adapted from James Bryan Smith
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