*Disclaimer: This post is not about food. Well, not really.
I had surgery almost 2 weeks ago and am feeling excellent. (Thanks, Jesus!) But ever since surgery, I've been feeling….hungry.
But not for food.
Well, yes for food, but that's not what this post is about. I realized about a week after surgery that I had only prayed like once or twice all week. Understandable, I know. The next week (last week), I was so focused on getting back to work and figuring out to do my job while healing from surgery. I was so busy, in fact, that I realized later in the week that I hadn't talked to God much during this past week either. About Thursday it hit me like a ton of bricks.
I missed my Daddy.
Like crazy.
The couple weeks before surgery, I had been having such a sweet, great time and truly felt God's presence. I was praying throughout the day and seeing my prayers answered. (Which was SUPER awesome- thanks, Jesus!). I know the core of my relationship with Jesus did not reside in my gallbladder. I had been so drowsy, busy, and distracted, that I forgot to talk to my Daddy. (Big oops!)
So Thursday night, I found myself crying and crying out for that closeness again. It's funny, it's taken years and a lot of growing for me to know the peace and sweetness of God's presence. Thankfully, He's brought to a point in my life where I know that…and I miss it when it's not there.
I was reading a blog and it quoted Jeremiah 29:11-13. I'm sure everyone and their brother has heard the first part:
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
But the next part was what really hit me:
"Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."
That's a promise! I cannot say enough about how blessed we are to have that promise. All we have to do is call out. That's it. No pleading, No great gestures. No striving. Just asking! How cool is that? We have a God that loves us so much. He DESIRES a relationship with us. Mmm…love it!
So now that the anesthesia and pain meds are out of the picture and the scars are healing, it's Jesus time! I wish that I'd had the focus to call on Him after surgery, but the Lord is faithful to provide and loves us even when we (momentarily) forget about Him. Thankfully, He's created a hunger in me and He is the only one that can satisfy that hunger.
I pray that if you are reading this, you would feel that hunger. I pray that you would seek out the only one that can satisfy that hunger. Because when He does, there is absolutely nothing in this world that can compare.
