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Passion's Pursuit

Jesus' question to anyone in life is the same: What do you desire? And if your answer is the same: I desire to know where you dwell, Jesus invites you, too, to come and see. Come where? On a journey, to where Jesus dwells.

Desire and The Journey, that is what Passion's Pursuit is.

It is the quest of every human being. We are made to seek and search, to yearn and ache, until the heart finally finds something or someone to match the depth of its desire, until the heart finds food sufficient for its hunger.

The hungers of our heart send us into the world seeking nourishment. In many ways we ask the world, "Have you seen the one who did this to my heart, causing it to ache?" Our heart finds itself scattered over the landscape as we ask each person and each possession and each activity to tell us more about the Mystery at the core of our lives.

This deep current of desire within our lives is the result of God having first desired us.

"We seek satisfaction of our spiritual (desire) in a host of ways that may have very little to do with God." And, sooner or later, we come up empty handed, frustrated, and disappointed.

So captivated by the messengers of God, the soul often mistakes them for God. We take the good things of God and ask that they be god. The heart, tired of its pilgrimage, seeks to settle down and make a home. It pours its deepest desires into relationships, possessions, plans, activities, goals, and asks that they bring fulfillment to our deepest hungers. We ask too much from them and they begin to crumble under our expectations. Over and over we are to be reminded that only God is sufficient food for the hungers of the heart.

If we don’t allow God to fill our deep needs, then what ends up filling them?

We have basic needs for significance, meaning and love that have to be satisfied some how. God created us in such a way that those needs can only be met in an intimate relationship with Him. More often than not however, we look to other things to satisfy the cravings that we have that don’t entail the same responsibilities, demands and the commitment that God desires from us.

"Our hearts are restless," wrote St. Augustine, and that truth remains fundamental to the human condition. Restlessness, desire, and yearning - none of it ever seems fully satisfied, until we allow God to come and meet our hearts cry.

The Cry of the Heart is heard. "Lord, you have become my passion, and my pursuit."
Longing For Christ, with a Passion Stirred, and a Heart Awakened to His Wondrous Love,
Living Fountain Ministries

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