My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. Ps. 63:8
Since the beginning of this year, John and I have determined to set aside one evening every week to read the Bible together, discuss our personal devotion time, and just talk about what’s going on in our home and in our lives. One would think that since we are married and since we see each other every day, that we would naturally communicate these things all the time, but we’ve discovered that in the busyness of life, it’s so easy to talk at each other without really noticing that we haven’t been talking with each other. Setting a date and time aside for fellowship with each other was such a great idea (thanks, John), and I look forward to growning even closer together as the year waxes on. We’ve been reading through A. W. Tozer’s The Pursuit of God. Here is a particularly convicting prayer Tozer writes as a conclusion to the first chapter:
O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, that so I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, `Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.’ Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Have you been tasting God’s goodness today? Has it made you thirsty for more? I personally stand ashamed at my own lack of desire.
Oh Ruth, that is such a beautiful prayer! What an encouragement and a challenge too! I’m really gonna have to get that book! Thanks so much for sharing!