If you want it, come and get it!

This is something the Lord has been laying on my heart the past week and culminated tonight at the Bridge Street House of Prayer in Grand Rapids. I was watching a new believer named Caleb worship with all his might. Every chance he gets he is at  prayer houses, worship nights, prayer gathering, Bible studies, and Sunday morning services. He is going all out for the Lord. I was thinking, "That's awesome, I remember when I was a new believer, trying to live every moment for the Lord, spending as much time with him as possible, no matter the cost." Then it struck me. Why am I not living like that?! I sing so many songs of "All to Jesus I surrender" and "You're worth it all" and "My whole life is yours". I am so tired of singing and not doing. These songs are so true but they don't seem to effect me much. We need to go after Jesus with everything, pay any cost, go any distance, he is worth it! "Seek and you will find." If you want it, come and get it! You are not under any obligation to do anything, for we are dead to the law. There is literally nothing left for you to do for God. There is only grace, what God does for us. But with that said, we should be going after him with every resource, time, and talent we have not because we have to but because that it what we were made for. This is reality. We have bought into the lie that life is going through the system that everyone else has done before us.  NO! There is a longing in everyone's heart for something more than the 9-5, more than getting a wife, house, kids, and a dog. Have kids, send them off to college and retire, and look  back on your life and hope you did some good and then die, This is not it! All that can be apart but that is not 'it'!! That is why there is that longing for something more. But we try to fill it with stuff and things that don't satisfy but for a fleeting moment! It was made to be filled with Jesus. Every second, of everyday Jesus! Getting to know him in and through every life circumstance and season.
We make time to eat 2-3 meals a day instead of 1 per week because if we only had 1 a week we would not be able to function like were meant to. But if the Bible is the bread from heaven  and we live by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God, then some of us are only eating once a week from the pastor and wondering why they aren't functioning like, say, the Christians in the Book of Acts. They weren't born 'super-spiritual', or 'a few select people gifted with being able to hear the voice of God'. They were just ordinary people, REALLY, just like you and I. But if you are going to argue that their is a big difference between them and you, ask yourself: 'Are you going after God with everything?' They were, but of course not without a billion mistakes (...remember they are actual people.) But look at what Acts 2:42 says they did. "And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers."

Scripture, Prayer, and Fellowship/Eating together/Communion

Let's seriously devote ourselves to these things. If we do, I can guarantee you that we will see the same results as the apostles did, which were: "And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and⁾ having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved." (Acts 2:43-47)

Basically to sum up what I am saying. God has put it on my heart to really seek him, to really go after him, just like I did at the start, just like, by his grace, I will continue to do. Once your a Christian a while you feel like you got the hang of this or you get sucked into religion (doing stuff for God). IT DOESN'T MATTER IF WE FEEL IT OR NOT! Lets go after him because HE IS WORTHY to be sought out! And in doing so we will find that fulfillment and satisfaction that can only be found in him.

This is the song that inspired the title of this blog, seriously listen to it! I Love Your Presence