I got a phone call right as I was finishing setting an alarm for a nap. It was a friend and I decided the nap could wait. While it was a real joy to hear from my friend, there was a sinking feeling that accompanied a question he posed.
How’s your devotion time going?
It was convicting because I knew that my spiritual appetite was bordering on starvation. I realized somewhere amidst my break from school I’d begun to drift. The purpose of my interrupted nap was really just to waste time.
This is the need I see in myself and in others. It’s a draught, a famine and if we stay here long enough we’ll forget that we are in need at all. The need is to be awakened to the more that Christ offers. The world offers plenty of pursuits which appear purposeful and are not in themselves bad, but if we neglect Christ in this process we’re missing the wholeness and abundance He alone can bring.
This place is a kiddie pool of sorts—it’s not enough and it never will be. If you’re at this place or you find yourself starting to slip, join me in prayer asking the Lord to awaken our hearts to the fullness He has for us. Don’t wait, how about right now?
C.S. Lewis puts it this way, “It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
