Tuesday, 8th March

 What does it mean to "get this?"  How will we know when this issue of MORE is beginning to set in our minds in a way that is alignment with what Scripture seems to be inviting us into?   This is my trail of thought right now.  What am I looking for before I get can say, "yup, this has begun to root in" ???

 And if I had to answer right now I'd have to say it is basically two things.... (1) hunger.  and.  (2) expectation.

 By "hunger" I mean real dissatisfaction with the amount of connection, intimacy, encounter with God.  One writer talks about how this hunger grew and grew in them until they would wake themselves up in the night praying for more in their sleep.  It was a Holy obsession.  Should it be anything else?  Is God worthy of anything short of an obsession?  Wouldn't our pop psychology culture find David, Elijah and Ezekiel and John the Baptist just a bit... umm.... out of balance?  Hunger is truth.  Dissatisfaction is appropriate. 

 Yet we live in a culture that works all day every day to project and inculcate an image that God is just not that necessary.  We are being "equipped" every day by that culture to believe this ourselves and "get a little perspective" and live in the real world.  What are you doing to counter that training regimen that passively washes over you?  How are you intentionally RE-training yourself for hunger?  For imbalance?  For a sight that tunes into the promise and reality of the MORE REAL WORLD that is unseen?

 But when we've seen hunger break the soil of our hearts like a daffodil in february, how do we keep from letting it turn into bitterness and frustration in the mind games of un-fulfillment in March?  The "March" seasons of our lives are often the waiting rooms where this hunger is tested and tempered.  What keep it from leaking into anger?  What keeps it from giving up?  FAITH.  I prefer the word, "expectation."  He is what I need.  And He is good.  He is generous.  "Why so downcast my soul?  I will Yet praise the Lord" says the Psalmist!  It is the one who hungers AND believes and in that belief trusts (sometimes with the assistance of friends who hold their arms up) that sees the fulfilment of blossom.