Something I seek more than anything.

[Blain]

I hope this doesn't sound weird and I apologize in advance as I realize I seem to make a lot of threads about me:/
But I just needed to post this, I don't know why I just have this overwhelming desire to share it.

In my faith which has been a little over a year I have desired something Of God more than anything. More than great faith, more than spiritual insight and more than heavenly treasures I seek a very deep, very rich and very powerful love between God and I. I don't know how to explain it other than a love that is so deep and rich that no tongue can speak it, no mouth can explain the deep and rich feelings God and I will have. I often can only imagine it as him and I finally together and hug and at that moment no words spoken we pour our deep feelings for each other pour into each others hearts. so rich and so deep that it is overwhelming. I call it a language of the hearts, don't know why and have never heard of it before and may seem strange.

However once God and I finally have each other like this, I am going to share it with the world. when you have such a thing it is impossible to keep it to yourself. I have a very greedy and very hungry heart for him, I often wonder about when one day I can finally have all of him I can take if my hunger will ever be satisfied. not meaning being ungrateful but more like how much of his heart can I take in?

 

[T_Laurich]

Your wrong, I am sorry but you are going to be waiting a very long time for that type of love...

It sounds very poetic and admirable that you say you wish for you and God to have such a deep love... In fact to most people (including me) it sounds very intriguing to get such a love on earth... But let me put it in a analogy...

A man who lives in america says "I wish I could have a million dollars because if I had that amount of money I could give at least 75% of it to the poor". Now at first glance that statement sounds extremely admirable and you might even wish that, the man speaking has a million dollars... But let us look at the real fact... The average person makes $2 a day... Which would be around 730 dollars a year... And the average american makes $50,000 dollars a year... The rich man negates the fact he has already been given a huge wealth... The rich man exclaims that if he was abundantly rich he would give it to the poor, when he makes more then what 68 people can earn in a year...

You are the same category as the rich man... Instead of realizing your wealth (the fact God showed Himself too you and died for you). You wish for more and more... This is one of the main reasons why we are called to disciple... Stop wishing for wealth and realize you are so filthy stinking rich that it is pathetic...

Edit (sidenote): God already loves you more than you can even comprehend... If anything is stopping that love from showing it is you... You don't have to find a way to earn His love, its there... Nothing you can do can make God love you more, you can just accept his love or not...

 

[Blain]

Your wrong, I am sorry but you are going to be waiting a very long time for that type of love...

It sounds very poetic and admirable that you say you wish for you and God to have such a deep love... In fact to most people (including me) it sounds very intriguing to get such a love on earth... But let me put it in a analogy...

A man who lives in america says "I wish I could have a million dollars because if I had that amount of money I could give at least 75% of it to the poor". Now at first glance that statement sounds extremely admirable and you might even wish that, the man speaking has a million dollars... But let us look at the real fact... The average person makes $2 a day... Which would be around 730 dollars a year... And the average american makes $50,000 dollars a year... The person negates the fact he has already been given a huge wealth... The person exclaims that if he was abundantly rich he would give it to the poor, when he makes more then what 68 people can earn in a year...

You are the same category as the rich man... Instead of realizing your wealth (the fact God showed Himself too you and died for you). You wish for more and more... This is one of the main reasons why we are called to disciple... Stop wishing for wealth and realize you are so filthy stinking rich that it is pathetic...

Oh no worries, I will wait as long as it take and will seek him to the ends of the earth to have him like this. He gave me a hungry and greedy heart for him for a reason, so I would never stop seeking him and for our love to always deepen and grow. the more our love deepens the more I become like him and the more I mature as a Christian. If I recall scripture says those who hunger and thirst for righteousness will be filled.

 

[Jullianna]

I hope this doesn't sound weird and I apologize in advance as I realize I seem to make a lot of threads about me:/
But I just needed to post this, I don't know why I just have this overwhelming desire to share it.

In my faith which has been a little over a year I have desired something Of God more than anything. More than great faith, more than spiritual insight and more than heavenly treasures I seek a very deep, very rich and very powerful love between God and I. I don't know how to explain it other than a love that is so deep and rich that no tongue can speak it, no mouth can explain the deep and rich feelings God and I will have. I often can only imagine it as him and I finally together and hug and at that moment no words spoken we pour our deep feelings for each other pour into each others hearts. so rich and so deep that it is overwhelming. I call it a language of the hearts, don't know why and have never heard of it before and may seem strange.

However once God and I finally have each other like this, I am going to share it with the world. when you have such a thing it is impossible to keep it to yourself. I have a very greedy and very hungry heart for him, I often wonder about when one day I can finally have all of him I can take if my hunger will ever be satisfied. not meaning being ungrateful but more like how much of his heart can I take in?

I don't think you'll find anything wrong with being a man after God's own heart in scripture. Here's the thing though...
Are we supposed to wait until we have all we want to share it with a lost and dying world?

Perhaps it is like 1 Kings 17:
[SUP]7 [/SUP]Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. [SUP]8 [/SUP]Then the word of the Lord came to him: [SUP]9 [/SUP]“Go at once to Zarephath in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.” [SUP]10 [/SUP]So he went to Zarephath. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her and asked, “Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?” [SUP]11 [/SUP]As she was going to get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread.”
[SUP]12 [/SUP]“As surely as the Lord your God lives,” she replied, “I don’t have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die.”
[SUP]13 [/SUP]Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. [SUP]14 [/SUP]For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land.’”
[SUP]15 [/SUP]She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family. [SUP]16 [/SUP]For the jar of flour was not used up and the jug of oil did not run dry, in keeping with the word of the Lord spoken by Elijah.


When we share what God has shared with us, as Jesus told us in Mark 16, we are blessed in abundance, as the widow was with oil.

He is the Vine and we are the branches. When a good thing flows from a vine to a leaf, the branch receives it as well.

 

[T_Laurich]

Oh no worries, I will wait as long as it take and will seek him to the ends of the earth to have him like this. He gave me a hungry and greedy heart for him for a reason, so I would never stop seeking him and for our love to always deepen and grow. the more our love deepens the more I become like him and the more I mature as a Christian. If I recall scripture says those who hunger and thirst for righteousness will be filled.

yes but you are mistaken...

No one comes to God, no one finds God's love... God gives it to them... I think your stance on how to 'obtain' God's love is incorrect... And that is why I say you are going to wait a very long time...

I also think you are referencing to John 4...And if you notice the verse before Jesus talks about living water and that the woman will thirst no more He says "If you only knew the gift of God".

This is not a prize you can get from striving for a long time... it is a gift...

I think you are at the point of your faith were you are going to struggle deeply between Works and Faith...

 

[BeanieD]

I think you are at the point of your faith were you are going to struggle deeply between Works and Faith...

I don't think he is. I wish the same for me. To know the love of God so deep in my heart and soul like that. I know beynd all doubt that God loves me, I want to be in the place where my love for Him is so strong...........

 

[TheBlackRider]

I hope this doesn't sound weird and I apologize in advance as I realize I seem to make a lot of threads about me:/
But I just needed to post this, I don't know why I just have this overwhelming desire to share it.

In my faith which has been a little over a year I have desired something Of God more than anything. More than great faith, more than spiritual insight and more than heavenly treasures I seek a very deep, very rich and very powerful love between God and I. I don't know how to explain it other than a love that is so deep and rich that no tongue can speak it, no mouth can explain the deep and rich feelings God and I will have. I often can only imagine it as him and I finally together and hug and at that moment no words spoken we pour our deep feelings for each other pour into each others hearts. so rich and so deep that it is overwhelming. I call it a language of the hearts, don't know why and have never heard of it before and may seem strange.

However once God and I finally have each other like this, I am going to share it with the world. when you have such a thing it is impossible to keep it to yourself. I have a very greedy and very hungry heart for him, I often wonder about when one day I can finally have all of him I can take if my hunger will ever be satisfied. not meaning being ungrateful but more like how much of his heart can I take in?

It's awesome, Blain, that you want to have such a deep love for God.
However, keep in mind that our relationship with God is ALWAYS growing. Often, it will seem like we'll never reach our goal of having such a deep and loving relationship with Him. You might want to reconsider it. XD Like....you said

However once God and I finally have each other like this, I am going to share it with the world.

Shouldn't we share about His love and might, holy, justice, and power as soon as we learn about it? If it's such GREAT NEWS, we should be willing to share about it WITH EVERYONE, AS SOON AS WE KNOW!

There is nothing wrong with looking for that kind of AMAZING relationship with God.
And technically we can NEVER take all of God in! He's just sooooo amazing, so powerful, and just SO BIG. We can't comprehend him with just our simple human minds!!! But we can strive to obtain this love with HIM! <333

I myself was looking for a special relationship with God. I wanted to "HAVE FUN WITH GOD."
XD i grew up in a Christian family and for a while, the Bible and God himself was getting dry and boring for me!
I'm not 100% sure if i've obtained that Special relationship with God yet, but i DO KNOW that i STILL want to share about GOD to everyone! ANY sort of living relationship with God cannot be hidden! LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE!

May you find that ASTOUNDING relationship you are so desperately greedy for! <333

In Christ Alone,
TheBlackRider

 

[T_Laurich]

How are we saved????

Is that not the greatest love anyone can ever know?

So why do we lust for a greater love... I think it is because we want to work for our faith but when we realize that we cannot earn grace we try to earn love...

So I do think this is a problem between works and faith...

Also God is love, so by faith alone you are saved and by God's grace you are saved... So by His grace He gives you the greatest love, which is Himself...

I see no place in scripture where you can earn greater love... All I see is that we are given the greatest love of all... God Himself...

Please if you see somewhere that we can earn greater love post the verse...

 

[TheBlackRider]

How are we saved????

Is that not the greatest love anyone can ever know?

So why do we lust for a greater love... I think it is because we want to work for our faith but when we realize that we cannot earn grace we try to earn love...

So I do think this is a problem between works and faith...

Also God is love, so by faith alone you are saved and by God's grace you are saved... So by His grace He gives you the greatest love, which is Himself...

I see no place in scripture where you can earn greater love... All I see is that we are given the greatest love of all... God Himself...

Please if you see somewhere that we can earn greater love post the verse...

Lol, i don't think you and Blain are on the same page at all! <3

I think Blain is trying to say (correct me if i'm wrong, Blain) that he wants an amazing relationship with God--one that is so deep and rich that it's overwhelming.
God is Love and God already loves us beyond human comprehension. What Blain (i think) is craving is a relationship. Since God is already loving us beyond belief, and he has always loved us, WE need to be able to love Him back!

It's actually IMPOSSIBLE to love God back with as much love as He loves US, but if we can attain even a fraction of that love, we will have such a DEEP and RICH relationship with God.

So, it's not about "lust for a greater love." Well...actually it IS, hahahahha! We LUST FOR A GREATER LOVE FOR God.
There is NO way we can "earn" or "obtain" this sort of greater love from GOD--because HE ALREADY loves us like that. But for us sinful, wayward, human beings, it's SO HARD to LOVE God with just a TINY bit of His love.

So.....we need to CRAVE for a DEEPER RICHER relationship with God.
Not about the way God loves us, but the way WE LOVE GOD BACK.

....
that's what I thought Blain meant. XD

 

[chatter23]

I hope this doesn't sound weird and I apologize in advance as I realize I seem to make a lot of threads about me:/
But I just needed to post this, I don't know why I just have this overwhelming desire to share it.

In my faith which has been a little over a year I have desired something Of God more than anything. More than great faith, more than spiritual insight and more than heavenly treasures I seek a very deep, very rich and very powerful love between God and I. I don't know how to explain it other than a love that is so deep and rich that no tongue can speak it, no mouth can explain the deep and rich feelings God and I will have. I often can only imagine it as him and I finally together and hug and at that moment no words spoken we pour our deep feelings for each other pour into each others hearts. so rich and so deep that it is overwhelming. I call it a language of the hearts, don't know why and have never heard of it before and may seem strange.

However once God and I finally have each other like this, I am going to share it with the world. when you have such a thing it is impossible to keep it to yourself. I have a very greedy and very hungry heart for him, I often wonder about when one day I can finally have all of him I can take if my hunger will ever be satisfied. not meaning being ungrateful but more like how much of his heart can I take in?

My God tells me the truth about myself and there are no feelings attached to it that is what I am hungry for.

 

[Blain]

Lol, i don't think you and Blain are on the same page at all! <3

I think Blain is trying to say (correct me if i'm wrong, Blain) that he wants an amazing relationship with God--one that is so deep and rich that it's overwhelming.
God is Love and God already loves us beyond human comprehension. What Blain (i think) is craving is a relationship. Since God is already loving us beyond belief, and he has always loved us, WE need to be able to love Him back!

It's actually IMPOSSIBLE to love God back with as much love as He loves US, but if we can attain even a fraction of that love, we will have such a DEEP and RICH relationship with God.

So, it's not about "lust for a greater love." Well...actually it IS, hahahahha! We LUST FOR A GREATER LOVE FOR God.
There is NO way we can "earn" or "obtain" this sort of greater love from GOD--because HE ALREADY loves us like that. But for us sinful, wayward, human beings, it's SO HARD to LOVE God with just a TINY bit of His love.

So.....we need to CRAVE for a DEEPER RICHER relationship with God.
Not about the way God loves us, but the way WE LOVE GOD BACK.

....
that's what I thought Blain meant. XD

This one gets it right on the dot

 

[jkalyna]

Don't know how to fiqure this out Blain, sometimes what your feeling in your heart, is diffent when put in writing, but I know that if you get stoned for the word, like stephen did, you will feel the love of God and as he asked God to forgive them, there is nothing beyond this kind of Love. We can not be equal to God, but he does say, " my grace is sufficient for thee, that you have all you need, because you have him, and that is enough. To be filled we read the word, for it is our bread, and living water, read more of it, you will feel the fullness of his love,,,

 

[reject-tech]

In my faith which has been a little over a year I have desired something Of God more than anything.

1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

[SUP]2 [/SUP]Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
[SUP]3 [/SUP]From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

 

[crossnote]

Our love for God can only be seen by our love for the brethren.

 

[pickles]

Blain,
consider this,
Be still and know that I am God.
For it is when we stop trying to hold God, and let Him hold us, there in is everything!

God bless
pickles