One of the things God has been bringing me back to is intimacy with Him. I remember some days in college where I just wouldn’t want to distract my attention with anything else other than Jesus and the words of life He gave us in this book we call the Bible. I remember spending time just walking back and forth (I don’t sit still well) in our little prayer chapel on campus, and He would just hit me with a sense of His kindness. Tears would creep, sometimes laughter would come.
I remember something my older brother said to me a little bit after he came to Jesus. After watching one of my basketball games he said, “I have never seen you so passionate about anything more than you are about God.” I am not always as vocal about things I love, but how I lived, and what he saw grip me was the love of Jesus, and it changed him.
How this life looks changes through seasons, and the last few years, my passion has come out in words and moving overseas and giving up comforts. And now I see it shifting. The other day I was just sitting enjoying the presence of God, and tears came. I missed that. It’s not that I haven’t cried lately, but I haven’t cried just because of who He is. It has been a while.
The more I connect with Jesus on an emotional level, it changes things. All of a sudden I don’t get offended by people as easily. I begin to ease from stress. I’m a little less moveable. Life becomes more free. I’m coming back to the place of love again.
Join me in this…
“Jesus, Father, Holy Spirit, I want to know your heart. I want to feel your heart for me and for the ones you love. Let my vision be on You and You alone. Let my heart hunger for only You. Jesus, only you can fill me. There is no one like You, Jesus.”
