Pursuit of the Holy
I don’t get it.
If the true purpose of our lives is to know God, and be intimate with Him…why do we spend most of our time doing other things? It just doesn’t make sense. How do we search Him out with all of our hearts, when we spend more time doing other things? Can someone explain this to me? Because I feel stuck in it, and I want to know what to do with my life. I know by the ache inside that what they say is true…I am made to know Him. So tell me…who actually, truly lives only to know Him? Who breathes to be with Him? How do we change? Somehow we must, right? I cannot live like this. Our lives do not line up with our claims…our values are nothing like what we say. Why am I too busy to pant like a deer…when my heart is crying out for Him?
Where do I step from here?
“The question is not, ‘what do I think my calling is here on earth?’ The true questions we ought to be asking are ‘Why did God create me? What is my eternal calling?’
Every one of us, regardless of gender, occupation or age, is called to know God intimately and search Him out fervently with all that we are. We were made by God for God. Period. We were made to search Him out.”
-Corey Russel, Pursuit of the Holy
