When I need God’s love the most, I find myself running after all of the beautiful things (and people) around me. They are things that God created, but he never meant for me to yearn for them more than I yearn for him. In fact, I believe he hopes to use his creation to direct us toward him, to lead us to want to know the creator of such beauty.
I am growing to know God’s splendor more and more, yet still my fickle heart beats faster for tangible but fleeting beauty. It’s as if I think that anything that could cause me to thrill just by looking at it, or at the thought of it, should be worthy of my devotion. And that seems to happen less often with God than with other things or people.
If, in a clear-headed moment, I catch my thoughts wandering, then I begin to cry out to my lover-God. I confess that my thoughts are errant and would he please help me re-direct them! I couldn’t even get through writing this without being distracted several times!
I’m sure I’m not the only one who struggles like this, so pray with me:
God, direct my heart towards you and through you at all times. Cause me to revel in your beautiful creation, but only with the purpose of giving glory to you instead of to myself. I understand that I share in your glory and that you created me to partake of the beauty of your earth, but help me to remember to worship you with my thoughts and perceptions, and not myself or others.
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