Do you Desire the Christ Life??

Do you Desire the Christ Life??

The question still remains! Who are we? What are our desires, our longings, our cravings? We live in a world taken up by ambition, success & competition. Are we to be any different from them? What about the holy ambition of becoming more like Christ? Does it have a place in the core of our being? We do well to give utmost thought to these searching questions. Many of us want the best of this life, do some good deeds and have our eternity secured in heaven. If all we want is to get to heaven, it is most likely that we will not get there! The journey begins during our earthly life! A life of beholding Christ and knowing him, loving him, worshipping Him. A life of holiness where He calls us to hate sin & have contempt for all that this world has to offer. A life where we are changed from image to image and glory to glory continually being transformed in the renewing of our mind. A life that  presses towards total conformity to Christ who is our forerunnner. A life taken up to do the will of the Father & seek his kingdom here on Earth beginning with our own hearts. All that the world offers is garbage in comparision to the quality of life that Christ offers us! That's our purpose. That's what were created for! That is what will satisfy the inner vaccum in the depths of our being. We look for gratification in earthly things, and we are disappointed. We seek recognition, love & significance from others and we are discouraged when we don't get it. The time is now! Choose Christ and the Life he offers! Make that shift today! Set your heart to seek him today! Maybe you have grown cold in your devotion to Christ. Or you may be you are in a place where distractions, discouragements & disappointments just seem to be the norm in your daily life! If we only trust Him, He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask of think! Seek his face, draw near to Him, look into His Word and let it renew your mind. And it won't be long when the rubber hits the road and you find yourself on the Kings Highway enjoying the glories of eternity here and now having in you the spring of water welling up to eternal life!! May the Lord Bless you! 

A Heart Cry - Pressing on to Perfection!

 O Father in heaven,  we need you this very hour. We are destitutes in our faith without your enabling grace. Our lives reflect so little desire for You! So many things crowd our hearts and we are distracted in the core of our being from the very purpose you created us for. We run from activity to activity, always  hurriedly to get the best out of what this life can offer. We fail to realize Father that we do this to the peril of our own soul. What will take for us to make that shift? To quit minding earthly things and setting our gaze upon your Son Jesus who is the author and perfector of our faith. What will take us Father, to have a singleness of purpose and a deep abiding desire to know Christ not just as a one time act, but in an increasing degree of intimacy to the extent that our lives become conformed to His image and His likeness. Draw us nigh O God, let not the pressures of this life slow us down in our white-hot pursuit of the eternal riches in Christ Jesus! May we never lose sight of your infinite goodness and loving kindness Father and so forgetting what lies behind, leaving behind all regrets of time lost, of sin tolerated and of the lukewarm attitude towards the Person of Christ, may we move forward and  press on towards perfection. Spirit of the living God, you who breathed into man so that he became a living being, breath upon our very souls, the breath of life that in dying to this world, we may become alive to God! O blessed Spirit, you who hovered over a formless void and created a world with inexplicable beauty, how much more can ye display the worth and beauty of Christ through my life! Blessed be his name. Amen!!