SPRING FLING
Falling in love with Jesus is not just a fling. It’s time to grow in Christ!
March 15th, 2023
FRAGMENTED
Psalm 34:18, ‘If your heart is broken, you’ll find God right there; if you’re kicked in the gut, He’ll help you catch your breath.’ (MSG)
I am desperate for Jesus. I cannot breathe apart from Him. I don’t think I even consider it anymore; He is simply everywhere to me. I don’t have to question it, because His faithfulness has rescued me in previous times when I placed myself alone. I know He is trustworthy because He has been so all the times I cried out to Him, and even times when I didn’t, in my past. He is my closest friend and I need Him as much as I need the air that I breathe.
It hasn’t always been this way between me and Jesus. I treated it as a fling once upon a time not too long ago. That’s what got me into many of the messes I dredged up and found myself in. I think there was such a void inside of me, a dying hollow, an empty black hole just begging to be filled. And I tried to fill it. With anything I could find that someone else promised would possibly be the hole-filler I was in search of. We can make some pretty crazy things seem like they might satisfy if we try hard enough. We can place our hope in so many lost destinies, and vacancies are always begging us with their neon signs. There is a lot this world has to offer which appears promising and fulfilling. But I can guarantee you, they are false realities and broken oaths just beckoning for your attention.
He loves His children so much that He built within each of us a God-sized, God-shaped hole, and it is only to be filled by Him; the need only to be supplied through Him. He longs for us to get to the place like I did, where we realize nothing else will do, not one other thing has the power or the majesty or the ability to sop up all the mess I made inside of me, so He can pour Himself inside and have His grace clog up all the crevices. I don’t need anything other than Him anymore because He now hopefully is spilling out of me everywhere, so it can be seen by others what the mercy of a loving God can do with the broken pieces of our lives. I work with people everyday who are busted too, who need hope so badly, and wouldn’t it just be like a Holy God to align their brokenness with the beautiful repairs He is making in me so they can see just how beautiful broken and barren can be?
I am desperate for Jesus. I don’t want to breathe apart from Him.
Isaiah 55:10-11, ‘”As the snow and rain that fall from heaven do not return until they have accomplished their purpose, soaking the earth and causing it to sprout with new life, providing seed to sow and bread to eat, so also will be the Word that I speak; it does not return to Me unfulfilled. My Word performs My purpose and fulfills the mission I sent it to accomplish.”’ (TPT)
