Yearning

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I have an inner yearning that I can’t explain. I didn’t seek it. I didn’t choose it. I didn’t cause it by my own effort or training. It’s been working inside me for as long as I can remember. It a deep longing to know God better and to align with His righteousness.

One day, in a moment, that yearning greatly intensified when Jesus Christ suddenly became real to me as I heard some people testify about how He had revealed Himself to them. Ever since that moment I have hungered and thirsted and sought to know and obey Jesus better and better.

I discovered that because Jesus isn’t confined to a building or to a religious organization, I can interact heart-to-heart with Him anywhere and anytime. I found out that when I’m truly connected heart-to-heart with Jesus, I experience deep spiritual kinship with each other people who are also connected with Him.

Christianity isn’t just about learning. It’s about a deep inner yearning to continually follow and obey the risen Jesus. The essence of Christianity isn’t a head full of notions. It’s Spirit-led motions.

Every Christian needs to be planted and anchored in the risen Jesus. He’s the only foundation that will never let us down! The body of Christ isn’t an organization. It’s Spirit-led by Jesus its Head and includes every true Christ-follower in the world.

Organizations divide the body of Christ into independent institutions, but Jesus wants His followers to be one. They’ll know we are Christians by our love (not by our church attendance). I yearn to better focus on “speaking the truth in love.”

Most religious leaders of the day didn’t like Jesus. The Pharisees even pressured the Romans to crucify Him. I long to see more people openly yearning to follow and obey the risen Jesus!

Repentance includes a real effort to make restitution. It involves sincerely seeking to reconcile, repair, and restore broken relationship with God and with people. This becomes possible when we receive the mercy and forgiveness of God that was purchased by Christ on the Cross and let the risen Jesus live within us and continually empower us to love God and to love our neighbor.

I want to be
Where God’s Spirit’s free
To directly lead
The gathered body
Of Jesus Christ.

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