Have You Lost That Loving Feeling?

My Utmost For His Highest 

Though it tarries, wait for it… —Habakkuk 2:3

{CHAMBERS} “Having the vision of God is the source of patience because it gives us God’s true and proper inspiration. Moses endured, not because of his devotion to his principles of what was right, nor because of his sense of duty to God, but because he had a vision of God. “…he endured as seeing Him who is invisible” (Hebrews 11:27). A person who has the vision of God is not devoted to a cause or to any particular issue— he is devoted to God Himself. […] “Though it tarries, wait for it….” The proof that we have the vision is that we are reaching out for more than we have already grasped. It is a bad thing to be satisfied spiritually. The psalmist said, “What shall I render to the Lord…? I will take up the cup of salvation…” (Psalm 116:12-13). […] Our reach must exceed our grasp. Paul said, “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on…” (Philippians 3:12). If we have only what we have experienced, we have nothing. But if we have the inspiration of the vision of God, we have more than we can experience. Beware of the danger of spiritual relaxation.”

{ELGIN}  God is infinite.  He is big.  His love is deep and beyond measure. And yet, many of us are satisfied with having a “little bit” of God.  Not too much that we might be thought of as fanatical, but enough so we are not thought of as being a reprobate, a sinner.  Don’t be satisfied with a little bit of God.  Never be satisfied with where you are in your faith.  God will lead us to Spiritual places that require more faith to follow, if we allow Him.  When Jesus was teaching, the closer He got to the cross, the more difficult the teaching.  Many disciples, most who were just along for the ride, fell away when they were challenged in what they thought and what they believed. (John 6:60,66-67) “On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?” …  From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.” You do not graduate as a Christian until you are with Jesus.  The lessons are impossible to accept without the Spirit and an obedient heart. Don’t be satisfied with where you are in your walk.  God has so much more to show you and teach you.  If you have lost that “loving feeling” toward God, you are content with the quality of your Christian life.  We should never be satisfied, but like Paul, (Philippians 3:12-14) “press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”