In this episode I wanted to take time to share a poetic devotional writing I’ve composed that explains the depths of my heart regarding the theological concepts I’m putting forth on this channel in a way that’s relatable, and relevant.

To rebuild healthy starts with a relationship with Jesus when the crowds are absent yet He is present. So here is a snippet written below of the cry of my heart that I believe is the absolute center of what’s most important.

The cry of my heart is the Greatest Commandment of Love that Jesus gave. For that which John spoke of to be my life’s anthem.

Sometimes you forget that you are not truly abiding in Christ until you find yourself not loving those closest to you.

To be known for this commandment, especially by my own family is my prayer.

But it begins in the secret place of that like a tree receiving life and true nourishment before giving it out. You love as you are first loved.

More often than not, if I’m honest, your devotional life won’t feel like being still as a tree planted by streams of water (Psalm 1), as you desire it to be.

Rather, your day immediately being blown around violently. Just because of the nature of a busy life most people have. Not allowing you to calibrate.

Being first loved calibrates you to love. It centers you, balances you. The greatest commandment was to love as much as Jesus loved us. Remind yourself of the simple yet greatest commandment. Because in His great mercy and grace He makes you as consistently fruitful as that psalm 1 tree. A beautiful monergism of The Love Of God.

What is true love? Not to love, but to be loved. It is to be carried along by the Father’s embrace. Even when you feel like you are drowning in an open sea, you suddenly find that you are not sinking. But you are carried along to shore. His embrace always has you as a Father does His Child.

What does it mean to hunger and thirst for righteousness?
Blessed is the man who finds himself in the beautiful lifestyle.

To be abundantly satisfied with the childlike pursuit of the lifestyle of a hunger and thirst that never ends yet always satisfies.

A hunger and thirst that so supersedes the natural cravings that leaves you in an overly satisfied pursuit leaving you in a place of the setting aside of natural needs. The purest form of fasting. A true content and upright heart.

What is it to Hunger and to Thirst?

To hunger for hunger For His Flesh. To thirst for thirst For The Living Waters That Never Run Dry. That is Free And Without Cost. The goal is not a momentary satisfaction, but to be overflowing with satisfaction every single day—Endless Bread, Endless Rivers—forever full. Give us this day, our Daily Bread.

What is the craving?

Righteousness. Right standing? No! You have been satisfied in that by believing on Christ in your beginnings. Righteousness is more than some declaration, it is an identity. A regeneration of nature into an ever deepening union.

So of Union? Yes!

Of this state we hunger and thirst for. Righteousness is a state of being. A hunger for the eternal feast of our ever deepening union with The Godhead. To be that which we are in Christ and yet are also becoming. Now and not yet. Jesus prayed that we might become one as He and The Father are one. We don’t become God as He is but we are co-heirs, we become like our Master.

True fasting is a devotional union of our desire to seek Jesus producing an abandonment to self because He accepts us. So our life becomes an intimate pursuit of Jesus. And He, The Holy Spirit, conforms us into Christ’

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