I’ve got a hunger
Archive for January, 2008
Tremendously Difficult
It is tremendously difficult to live for God’s glory. Living with the Kingdom as one’s first priority and focus is quite a task. Why is this? Why is living for myself so much easier? Why do I find that I am far more capable of putting myself first in my life than I am of striving for the things of God?
All I know is that I want to serve the Lord. I want to edify the Kingdom and I want each and every one of my actions to point towards that coming reality… That time that is racing toward Earth… That moment in time when there will once again cease to be an Infinite and Qualitative Difference Between Eternity And Time. The last time this happened the fractured relationship between Creator and creation was restored. As the second person of the Trinity shared our humanity we were blown wide open, experiencing the grace that was designed for us. In the moment of Christ’s second coming we will once again experience this grace, this time for eternity. In this moment and those forever to follow, the wolf and the lamb lie down together in harmony (Isaiah 11:6). Similarly, Eternity and time will once again be found chest-to-chest, embracing, hearts beating in synchronization, and this time it will last forever. Wrongs will become right and the Lord and his justice will rule the day.
This is the reality that I want to live and work toward in my life. It is not my first inclination and it is a daily struggle, but it is, in reality, the life I was designed to live and the only life that is really worth living. Daily I feel the temptation to despair at being so far from God, and daily I must be reminded of the age to come where there will be no distance to hold us back from one another.
