Hunger for Jesus

Two of the prerequisites for knowing God are: a burning, passionate hunger to fellowship with and know Him, and secondly, a realization of how impoverished we are without Him. If we don’t have these two realities working within us, all of the rest that we will talk about will be irrelevant.  We can never know Christ in any depth without these attitudes within. We must ask Him to create that in us.
 
Now one of the things we know about God is that He is everywhere. That means, of course, that no matter where we are He is there.

But union with Christ is talking about something more than that. It is talking of an inner fellowship with Him that is as close as possible to be in.

It is now our privilege, with His help, to steadily, continually, fellowship with Him daily.  

The very purpose of God is that He has a passion to share the fellowship of the Godhead that existed before time with mankind that He created.

To be hungry for God and know that without Him we have nothing, is an understanding of the statement by Jesus that without Him we can do nothing.  

This implies that there is to be a moment by moment union with Him that testifies to the above expectation. In other words there is no way we could walk, breath, work, play, or eat without His presence. Yet we continually live life as if we can do these things without Him. The truth is that we can’t.  

The point is that we must learn and practice the “art” of continual fellowship with God through Jesus Christ. This has always been His passionate purpose throughout the ages.  

If we believe in Jesus Christ then He is within us in a way that is closer than we can possibly imagine. It is His desire that we search out this closeness with Him and come into experiential union with Him.  

We don’t want to succumb to the temptation to make this some type of doctrine that is to be debated over. We have had enough of that throughout the ages. We are to be consumed with this Christ that woos us and calls us to be in close union with Him. He will be satisfied with nothing less.  

Are you up for the call? Then don’t disconnect from the reality that God has called us to. Don’t just read about it in the scriptures, rather respond and enter into this magnificent life that awaits anyone that is willing to pursue it. Jesus is calling and waiting for you.

Gary