What we long for
May 6, 2008
1 Cor 2 v 11,Proverbs 19 v 22, Isaiah 54 v 10
The Apostle writes that no one knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man.
Which is an interesting comment, when we compare it to the statements that we make.
How sometimes we think we “really know our own mind”.
Really?
The psalmist was so unconvinced that he was qualified for an exercise in self assessment, that he asked God to search him.
It sometimes takes the Maker to say what is really going on in the depths of the created ones . Because no one really knows us like God does.
The son of the psalmist said it for us all “What a man desires is unfailing love”
So that’s it.
The unrelenting patterns of my life – driving me , even leading me, keeping me “busy”….and of themselves, not always guaranteed to satisfy this deep longing…..
Because, all the time, what the creator said I really needed was love that would never fail me.
And God, through the prophet, says that even if the mountains were shaken and the hills removed, yet “my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed”
Because he has compassion on you.
Unfailing love.
It is what we really desire , and now we know the source.
