Hello everyone and welcome to my Spiritual Sunday post. Thank you Charlotte and Ginger who every week faithfully bring us this inspirational time together. Please click on the link
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The other day I ran across this wonderful devotional and thought I would share it with you.
THE HEAT OF OUR DESIRE
Did that get your attention? I thought so!
Pastor A. W. Tozer {1897-1963} read the great Christian theologians until he could write about them with ease. He challenges us: "Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their desire after God. They mourned for Him, they prayed and wrestled and sought for Him day and night, in season and out, and when they had found Him the finding was all the sweeter for the long seeking."
The writer of Psalm 42 had the kind of longing for the Lord that Tozer spoke about. Feeling separated from God, the psalmist used the simile of a deer panting with thirst to express his deep yearning for a taste of the presence of God.
"As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God."{verse 1-2} The heat of his desire for the Lord was so great and his sorrow so intense, he did more weeping than eating. {verse 3} But the psalmist's longing was satisfied when he placed his hope in God and praised Him for His presence and help.
O that we would have a longing and thirsting for Him that is so intense that others would feel the heat of our desire for Him! ~ Marvin Williams
Thank you for joining me today and God bless you.
Sharing from my heart~ Sandi
So, I had the Christmas music on and got all the lights on the tree then to my dismay, the tree topper angel I have had since 1989 wasn't working. Twenty years, I've had her. She was so pretty sitting up there on top of the tree and now she'll only do in a center piece or something. Very disappointing! So now I'm on the hunt for a replacement. Have you noticed how big they're making the angel tree toppers now? I hope I can find one that is just right!
Not too big, not too small, but just right. I feel like Goldilocks trying out the porridge and the furniture!
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