Deep longings

Deep longings - desiring what this life cannot provide - show something vital is ¹missing. 

Even as God's child, who has complete and total access to God and is perfectly loved by him, we do not ²yet fully "have" Him (or does he have all of us, our total heart). Without being fully "glorified" (unlimited) we cannot withstand his unfettered presence. We now see him through a glass darkly - by faith, not by sight. One day we will see him face-to-face. When we do we will be like him; fully glorified, fully alive, fully ³able to behold and experience firsthand his infinite majesty, fully freed from all pain and sorrow as we were originally designed, but not until then.

1Pe 1:8  Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,

Joh 20:29  Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

For a further discussion on longings click here

On longing for perfect love (a poem) click here

For a further discussion on how a key part of hell is unfulfilled longings click here.

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¹Even those who get what they desire find something still missing. Suicide and death by reckless living, such as substance abuse, are just as prevalent among the rich and famous, if not more. Getting what you think you need and want can be more maddening than hoping for it but not yet having it. People who reach the top of the economic and/or social ladder got there because their desire for something missing - and most significantly, their ability to get it - was greater than others. Once you have what you thought would fulfill you but doesn't, where do you go now that you are "at the top?"

²But, because of Christ's resurrection - this is our proof and evidence we will too one day.

³The greatness of God is such that to behold him in our present limited ("unglorified") state would literally kill us. Imagine, if you can, how great God must be that it requires we be in a state or form so different -- yet still us - that we would die otherwise. Truly eye has not seen nor ear heard what God has in store for those who love him. 

Recall those times things were so good you felt you would pop if they got any better? That will be us with God in eternity but many times over. Our capacity for infinite love will be greatly expanded and forever increasing without interruption. It is hard to comprehend, but this is the picture painted for us. 

Why forever increasing? Because we are finite but God is infinite. We will never reach the full height, width, length, or depth of God in all his glory and love because there is no end to Him... He is endless. We will forever discover the depth and richness of God.