There are certain things in my life that I have become dependent upon to get through each day. Coffee is one of those things. If I don’t have coffee in the morning and later on in the day, I can start to get cranky and will get severe headaches from the withdrawal of caffeine. Working out is another struggle for me as well. Don’t get me wrong, working out is definitely a way I try to stay healthy and in shape but it can become a problem once it is abused to the point of over-working myself. I have become so accustomed to working out at a high intensity that I feel that If I miss a workout, I am somehow doomed to become out of shape and then I feel guilty about every little thing I ate that day (especially if I decided to have sweets that day), thinking that I will gain weight. But at the same time, I have become so dependent on food as well. Being an athlete all my life, I have to constantly fuel my body. My schedule for the day revolves around what and when I am going to eat, how many calories I should be eating, and how to properly balance a meal to get the most nutrients. I have become so obsessed with eating healthy and trying to count how many calories I eat each day that it has ruled my mind for over the last couple years. Isn’t it interesting how these things can have so much control over our thoughts and actions to where we cannot function properly without them?
What would it look like if I desired and craved God like this?
Instead of waking up every morning thinking about needing coffee, food, and working out….I want to wake up thinking about how much I need God daily, and how I want to become dependent on Him. I want to have so much dependency on God that the only way I will be able to get through each day is for Him to completely intervene and give me His strength so that He may work through me to do His perfect will. Having a desire and craving to know God more and to continue developing my relationship with Him is so much more fulfilling than craving the things that my human body desires. When we desire to be in close communion with God each day, we no longer have to worry about the other things, because God will provide us with everything that we need daily. When we surrender our lives to Christ each morning, the Holy Spirit will guide our steps throughout the day and we begin to desire the things that He does more so than our own human desires.
