Desires After God 2

The divine nature given to us by the Spirit of God pines after God, longs for Christ's presence, and sighs for the comfort of the Holy Ghost.  The carnal man doesn't sigh after heavenly things.  We need a real hunger after God and His holiness.  The pure desires are infused into us by the Holy Spirit after He regenerates us.  These desires are increased by the Holy Spirit, instruction in righteousness, and communion with Christ.  We sigh and long to be where Jesus is, and desire to be more like Jesus - tender, loving, brave, prayerful, compassionate, obedient, meek and lowly, self-sacrificing.  Whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, aiming only at His glory and honor.  Lord, please give me an all-consuming desire for the glory of God.

Sin cripples the desire for holiness and purity, and dampens the aspiration after goodness and godliness.  Leave the world, take up your cross and follow Jesus, forsake the pursuit of vanity, lay hold on eternal life.  Stop wasting your thoughts upon the cares of time; think more about the matters of Eternity.  Why will you continue to be companions with those who love sin and mock God and whose cause is evil?  Why will you continue to neglect Christ and remain an enemy of God and exist here in time in a lost state?  Desire to love to Christ's glory.  My ambition is to serve and please Christ.  If we could we would live without sin, for we hate and loathe iniquity.

Without a saving interest in Christ Jesus, your soul is lost to all Eternity. Put your soul into the eternal custody of Christ.  It is a matter of first priority to acknowledge Christ, that He is God manifest in the flesh, crucified and risen from the dead.  Acknowledge Christ by receiving Him as your Substitute and Redeemer, trust to His Blood and Righteousness, owning Him as your Salvation, your only Hope, and your closest Desire.

Remain deeply grateful for Christ's Atoning Sacrifice.  Spiritual, intense, fervent, thoughtful.  Build your life on the Rock of Christ's Love - sincerity, pure desire, the work of the Holy Spirit, and be not deceived.  Desires after holiness, self-denial, communion with God.  Self-righteous human nature measures itself by the law of God, and other vain traditions set up by lost religionists.  I desire to know God's will and do what He bids me to do. My highest honor is to be a servant of Christ.  It is for Jesus that I live, and His glory is my highest aim.

Are you God's servant?  A servant does not do his own will or wishes. A servant takes his orders from his master's mouth and eye. Have you submitted your will to God's will?  Are you no longer controlled by a proud and high spirit?  My lifework is to win men and women to faith and obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ.

My heart is full of loving devotion to Christ Jesus. My heart pants and has an earnest desire for Christ's coming.  A good soldier contends earnestly for the Faith, and fights incessantly against his own sins, evil habits, proud thoughts, and corrupt desires.  Your soul can never find true Rest in baptism or ceremonies.  That is like looking for diamonds in a dunghill.  Special gratitude for Jesus.

Ask the Holy Spirit to soften your heart, guide your judgment, direct your will, give you more repentance.  I pant to have God's own Spirit in my soul and His dear Son in my heart.  Tender conscience, desire after Christ, appetite for the words of God, love for grace, useful servant, led by divine impulses, sensitive to Spirit's leading.  Lord Jesus, all my desire is before Thee.

Intense desire and longings for the glory of God.  Seeking after more light and the fruit of the Spirit, sincere interest in divine things, worship God in all simplicity and earnestness of spirit.  Give over to Jesus all of your mental faculties, passions, desires and ambitions.  Ask the Spirit of God to increase your longings after the world to come.  Prepared hearts, longing appetites, holy aspiration, pure desires.  My great longing is to be set free from sin and self.  Hearty, earnest, intense longings after purity.

My worst problem and trouble are my own sins which are a daily plague and burden.  Sorrowing over sins against God, inward conflict with self, hungering and thirsting after righteousness, joyous gratitude.  Let gratitude permeate your entire life and faculties through and through.  Let gratitude compel you to do all for Jesus' sake.

Have you good thought for all but the Best person who died for you?  Have you admiration for Obama, Hillary, or Trump but none for Jesus?  Have you kind thoughts of gratitude for friends of yours, but none for the Best Friend a sinner could ever have? What can I do today to show Jesus my gratitude?  Think soberly of Eternity, and think seriously of the world to come.  Love of sin, indifference, careless, covetous, worldliness, give no thought to eternal matters, excusing sin.  Seeking the Lord Jesus fervently and frequently. Father, glorify Jesus' name today through my thoughts, words, and deeds.  Humble faith, fervent love, adoring gratitude.