Cravings Part 2

...So we developed our Core Values. Later that Fall I picked up a book by Erwin McManus called Soul Cravings. It only confirmed the values we had stated. Erwin widdled it down to three areas that all humans crave but in those three areas he talked about all of our values.

Through that book and through my quiet time with God over the past year and a half I've come to understand one VERY crucial part of these cravings. These cravings of the soul. They can ONLY be met IN God. "In" NOT by Him. Rain is sent BY God. Money can be given BY God. Health can be given BY God. The cravings of our soul are only met IN Him.

We don't like that. We want to have God but find our Life in worldly pleasures.
We want to have God but keep some of the "little" sins we enjoy so we don't REALLY change. (Which doesn't really make sense cause deep down we really long to be better. To not hold on to those things)
We want to have God but not commit to HIS family. We want to have God but worship other things in our lives. We want to have God and find our significance in our job, our title, our possessions, our accomplishments.

We want to have the "good" parts of God and hope he just GIVES what our souls craves. THAT CAN'T HAPPEN! We HAVE to give ourselves COMPLETELY to God. To find what our soul craves we MUST find ourselves IN Him. We use words like "SURRENDER" "DEDICATE" "DEVOTE" to describe this, but however you describe it it MUST be done to satisfy the soul.

The problem the church has is it's full of Jesus Stalkers. What's a Jesus stalker? Tune into Part 3 tomorrow.

Following Christ,

Jeff