the longing

I love the reflection on this song.
It's something I've been thinking about a lot lately.

C.S. Lewis calls this feeling of longing ‘joy,‘ an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction."  Our hearts long for God. Because God, who is love, created us.  St. Augustine wrote, "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you." God gives us this longing...for Him. It keeps us in pursuit of our creator. It keeps us in pursuit of kingdom things!

We see this in the bible too. I love this verse: "Since then you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above. Here Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on earthly things. For you died. And your life is now hidden with Christ in God. And when Christ, who is your LIFE, appears, you also will appear with him in Glory!

To put everything in one, there is nothing you can want, there is nothing you can ask for, there is nothing you can need in time or in eternity, there is nothing living, nothing dying, there is nothing in this world, nothing in the next world, there is nothing now, nothing at the resurrection-morning, nothing in heaven which is not contained in this text—”I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”

-Charles Spurgeon