What makes you get up and go after something?

What is it that changes the course of a business, a relationship, an individual life?

In most instances,
it’s the desire for something.

The desire to get something,
to change a circumstance,
to get away from something,
or to get somewhere….
is what propels us from where
we are to where we want to get.

What are your desires?

Whether you are young or old,
7 or 70, you most likely have desires.

At 7 you cannot always put words to it….but you want what you want. At 70, you can and should have words for it.

What is your deepest desire?

Some desires are not deep.

Wanting something to nibble on while you watch television is not a deep desire.

Looking In a dumpster or standing in a food line at a shelter after having not eaten for days… is a deep desire which has developed into a physiological need.

What is your deepest desire?

Has it become a need yet?
The desires that are so deep no bottom has yet created satisfaction or comfort …..
are the desires that change lives and can change the world.
A desire to improve ones life may lead to a diet,
it will lead to changing a behavior.
It might lead to changing jobs.

As a businessman,
a desire to grow or expand will lead to decisions about commitment and if that commitment is strong enough it will lead to the spending of money. That step evidences the desire is serious.

As a spiritual person,
do you have a desire to grow deeper in the spiritual life you have?

Do you desire it seriously enough to go after it?

If you wish to get better,
you will change a behavior.

When the simple wish becomes a desire, one may begin going to Church. It may involve volunteering to help.

Those are steps toward meeting the desire. Some get satisfied there.

Are any of us there….
content or satisfied?

I would challenge myself and anyone to consider that being content and satisfied will restrict us from growing further and from going deeper.

At the table, we put the utensil down and push away when we get full. After that, satisfaction comes and can lead to a sedentary period.

The challenge is to not get satisfied.
There have been times in your life when you were not easily satisfied.

You did not “settle”.

Do you get easily satisfied when it comes to spiritual matters?

Be careful that it does not come quickly.

Spiritual growth has no bounds.

There is no ceiling,
There is no floor.

It’s deep and wide.

No matter where we have grown to….
there is more.
Some people work for,
and get money
and cannot ever get enough.

If that pursuit is dominant it can create continual feelings of frustration.
From experience,
many can tell you that the unceasing pursuit of spiritual growth does not lead to frustration, but to escalating levels of Joy, Understanding, and a fulfillment that comes with the excited anticipation that there is so much more to receive.

Read that again. It’s true.

The streets of Alabama were mostly empty last Saturday afternoon. Desire kept people indoors and in front of a television.
Very little, if anything, would have kept fans from watching that game.

May very little, if anything, keep us from pursuing a deeper spiritual walk.

What we truly desire…
we work toward,
we go after,
we get up,
refuse to give up,
change circumstances
and make sacrifices.

May unceasing Desire drive us toward a deeper life with The One Who gives us that very life.

 

You have to go and get them.

People sometimes come to you and seek friendship, communion and relationship.
However, things do not get done,
friendships are not developed if we sit and wait on others to come to us.

More than likely,
if you are married……
when you advanced in the relationship you have with your wife to the point of getting engaged…you asked her to marry you.

You pursued her,
you courted her,
you went to pick her up for most of,
if not all of your dates….
then, eventually,  you asked her the question.

You did not sit at your house waiting on her to come to you.

You sought her out.
Won her over.

You did not wait on her.

Do not wait to get what you want.

Excluding the patience we are instructed to walk in through Christ….                               and there is a place for that….
we make things happen in our life.

Waiting on The Lord is done when you hear from him instructing you to do so.

Short of that…
you do not sit and wait.

We would still be living in caves if everyone did that.

The job you have was most likely one you applied for,
one you went after.

You go to buy groceries.
You go to get the things you need.

In Matthew 28….
Jesus said to His Disciples to sit in Jerusalem and wait on the world to come to them.

Oh…..
if you know that Chapter then you have already corrected me.

He told them to ….
“Go, and preach.”
“Go, and make disciples.”
“Go, and spread this Gospel.”

The instruction was to go and get them.
Not to wait on them.

 

The example has been set.

 

Do not wait in your church pew for people to come and ask about  JESUS.

Go get them.

Do not sit in your chair and wait on people to pursue you for friendship.

House are not build by themselves.
Hammers are used, nails are driven,
paint is brushed on, doors are hung.
Effort is extended.

Introduce yourself.

Pursue them.

It worked with your wife.

It will work with new friends and new relationships.

Their lives can be changed by your
effort of getting involved with them.
Your life can be elevated by the effort extended to pursue new relationships.

Don’t wait on them.

 

 

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