Tuesday, January 22, 2008

enough.

"...to pursue after Christ does not narrow one's life, but brings it rather to the level of highest possible fulfillment." a.w. tozer

this statement has become so real in my life as of late. sometimes i believe that we, even as christians, have a mindset of 'to follow Christ will require sacrifice, and therefore become mundane, and even difficult.' this is so far from the truth. to follow hard after our creator is what we were made for. to pursue with passion His plan, and His dreams, is the only possible hope of finding pure joy and contentment.

we are in a culture saturated with 'me.' this makes the mindset of 'Him' difficult to understand. because we are handed everything we could ever want or need, we find the ideas of 'pursuing after righteousness,' or even 'being set apart,' a discipline that just seems either too time consuming, or requires too much effort to be worth it. if we could only grasp how truly amazing life could be when lived for Him!

the practice of living life in His holy presense has become the overwhelming desire of my life. i want to look like Him. i want to love like Him. i want to be so saturated with His presence, so completely consumed with Him, that nothing else matters.

i want to be able to say, if everything i loved was gone tomorrow...He would be enough.