Insatiable for God
We seek after God because we want to experience Him; we want to know Him. Yet, we often create barriers instead of bridging. No matter who you are, we all tend to perform good works in order to please God, to gain His favor and blessing on our lives. Some perform acts of penitence to clear their feelings of guilt. Some do acts of service, such as feeding the homeless, fasting, and giving funds to orphans. All these things can be profitable to a man, but they can also create an illusion of safety in their own efforts. Our good acts don’t greatly matter to God, but only what your love and devotion and intention are in the works are.
Meister Eckhart said, “For the man is far too greedy who is not satisfied with God.”
We are to hunger and thirst after His righteousness. We are to pant like a deer as we run to His living waters. He is the Source of true pure life. Yet, if a man desires more than the abundant life that he gives to us, is he not being selfish and no longer thirsting after Living Waters? If our heart wholly desires to please God (and not our own defense or gain), then God is freed to work through us wholly.