Rewind of an Old Post

wrote this in 2009. still true today....

longings

i'll admit it...sometimes life and our spouses can be a pain. hey, but so are we. i want Karl to be able to interpret what i need when i need it...doesn't happen....won't happen. i quickly forget that only God can really know me and "get" me. a lot of times i forget that.

i just went to a ladies night out at our church the other day. i really didn't want to be with a whole room of women, but i knew i needed to be there. anywho, at the meeting an equally wild woman shared a great message about passions and longings. 

it just hit on all cylinders. she spoke about how our longings are good. not easy to deal with, but good, because it should cause us to remember that we are meant for more. and that's ok to realize we were meant for more. we just tend to get sidetracked and think that we have to pursue and possess those things we long for, thinking that they will fulfill us. you know the grass is always greener thing.

these longings are actually like holes in swiss cheese (now stay with me). the holes are meant to be there, just like our longings. these holes are put there by God, to draw us to Him, so that He can fill those holes. the more that we are meant for is more of Him. 

the big wow for me came when she said that God allows Himself to be put in the same "holey" state. He longs to have fellowship with us. He longs for us to sit at His feet. 

He desires that communion with us, but amazingly gives us the freedom to reject Him. wow! that means that God is longing for me, yet He remains unfulfilled. and i think that i have longings and passions unfulfilled!

ANYWHO....you are meant for more, i am meant for more. the people and situations around us are not the problem. changing people, jobs, locations etc will not stop the longings. the longings will not go away. longings are there to let us remember our need of a Savior.