"My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God."
Psalm 84:2
"As the heart pants after the water brooks,
so pants my soul after thee, O God!"
Psalms 42:1-2
My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God."
Psalm 84:2
"As the heart pants after the water brooks,
so pants my soul after thee, O God!"
Psalms 42:1-2
Today as I took a warm bath I meditated on these verses and I cried out to God that I needed HIM on this journey. Without HIS strength and HIS power I cannot change my cravings from food/books/me time to Him and His word! I WANT to crave Him. I WANT to want Him more than anything else. I want my every breath to be for Him and for His glory. But, my sinful, selfish self battles my desire to want God above all else. This will be an eternal battle until I go to my eternal home - heaven. And I cannot wait for that day!!!
The thing I love about the picture above is that the mama deer is teaching her baby to crave water. This is a picture for me of what my goal should be as a mom - to teach my babies (and my tween) to crave God above all else. My prayer is that my children will desire God more than watching TV, more than clothes, more than finding a spouse, more than playing video games, more than food, more than ANYTHING! So part of my goal in this 6 week journey is to find ways to instill that in my kids.
The thing I love about the picture above is that the mama deer is teaching her baby to crave water. This is a picture for me of what my goal should be as a mom - to teach my babies (and my tween) to crave God above all else. My prayer is that my children will desire God more than watching TV, more than clothes, more than finding a spouse, more than playing video games, more than food, more than ANYTHING! So part of my goal in this 6 week journey is to find ways to instill that in my kids.