“I pray that from His glorious, unlimited resources He will empower you with inner strength through His Spirit. Then Christ will make His home in your hearts as you trust in Him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.” (Ephesians 3:16-19 NLT)
If an angel of the Lord appeared to you, just like in the Bible, and he said to you: “The Lord has sent me to give you your heart’s greatest desire. Whatever you want most is yours for the asking!” For what would you ask? Something material? Millions, maybe billions of dollars? A house or maybe more than one house? A fleet of Ferrari’s so you could give them away to all your friends?
How about that special person with whom you could build a happy life? A child or children? A happy family? The perfect job, or maybe your own company? How about perfect health or healing for you, a loved one or friend? The list is very long, perhaps endless of things for which we could ask, but do you not realize that whatever “that” is for which you most long to have will be a guiding force in your life, whether you ever actually have it or not?
Since many of you who read this blog regularly are believers in the Lord Jesus, might I expect that some of you most want the intimacy with God that results from a Spirit-filled and Spirit-led life? As I ponder my own heart, I want most to be like Jesus. No, not His acclaim. I don’t want to be worshipped or adored by my loving followers, I want my life to reflect His character, His love, His devotion to the Father, His trust in God’s Word, His selfless giving of Himself in the pursuit of helping others.
When someone sees me I want them to see evidence that I walk with Jesus, that I’m not selfish or self-focused, but so devoted to the Savior that my heart beats with His blood pumping through it. I’m reminded of A. W. Tozer’s words when he wrote: “Most Christians want a thrill or joy, but do not want holiness or the purity of a Spirit-filled life.”
Are you fed up with your unholy attachment to the things of this world? Do you long to put behind you the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life? (1 John 2:16) Have you grown content to sit at the feet of Jesus and let the entanglements of sinful habits be stripped away? There’s nothing this world offers, even the air I breathe, that appeals to me more than knowing, loving, serving, and longing for an eternity with Him.
Ultimately, we’re going to have Jesus or something else. If our life’s ambition is to follow, honor, and learn to walk in submission to Jesus’ Lordship, that’s what we’ll have, but if we want anything else and miss Jesus, it doesn’t matter what it is, it will be like a heap of trash from eternity’s perspective.
Please determine today to not only allow, but long for the Lord’s Spirit to reign and rule in your life. Open your heart to Him and let Him give you what you really want in the core of your being – love, peace, joy, fulfillment, mission, purpose, and a life dedicated to helping others, not to satisfy or honor you, but Him.
Food for thought.
Blessings, Ed 😊
Walking With Jesus 
What is my hearts greatest desire? What do I want more than anything else right now? Since I’m already a follower of Christ Jesus, and in my future I will be leaving this world for heaven, my greatest desire is that both my wife & my son, who are still of this world, will finally be saved by God’s grace, and will be going to heaven with me on the day of the Blessed Hope. I long for that day when I can finally call them my sister & brother in Christ for the rest of eternity.
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