If you listen, or if you look, or if you pause all activity, you will often feel it. It is a longing, an ache deep in our souls. Deeper than sound or sight, it draws you… but where does it draw you?
It feels like it draws down, or inward, so we often fail to recognize that our deepest longings draw us to God.
After all, God is “up there” in the heavens. So we look within ourselves, or we try to answer the longing with activities and projects.
But if we think about the idea of the “heavens” being a different dimension of the space we occupy, this longing that draws us deeper makes more sense. God’s presence in “the heavens” is not way high above us; it is among us. In a sense, it is a a deeper , unseen dimension.
These scriptures we are meditating on this week have drawn my heart deeper.
Psalm 42- The writer longs for God. Nothing else will satisfy
Isaiah 43- God reassures us that our deep need for rescue and security are met in his faithfulness
Jeremiah 32-God promises nothing is too hard for him, speaking to our sense of inadequacy
Isaiah 45- Creation is made for habitation. We are wanted.
Job 37- God's power is without comparison.
(for full texts see previous blog)
The deepest, most painful and difficult longings of our hearts are met in Elohim, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We can join the multitudes of people throughout time and space calling out to him with confidence, knowing he hears and is present.
Maybe that is why God allows a derivative of the pagan word for god to be his name- as a reminder to those who know him as Yahweh. Even those still in darkness long for the God of all gods, our Elohim.
I pray that we listen to the longings of our hearts, and allow them to draw us deeper into presence with God.
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