Rescued by Christ at a young age I’m ashamed to admit I may have taken my salvation for granted. I cannot remember not knowing God’s love or Christ sacrifice. Having walked in grace for so long I was not aware nor did I truly grasp how very protected I had been. I was your everyday typical “comfortable” Christian. I knew God, I knew he loved me, and I knew he would love me no matter what. But it wasn’t till in this last year I really began to Grasp who my God is. After all these years of thinking I “knew Him” I realized I really only “knew of Him”. I did not have the intimate relationship with God that He so longs to have with His children.

Through out the years I have seen many mighty women of God, I often thought to myself, why doesn’t God use me like He uses her, why doesn’t He talk to me like He does her. Why can’t I hear Him like she does? I wanted to be excited about Jesus they way they were, I wanted to hunger for Him the way they did.

Then one day it hit me. God didn’t just randomly walk up and whack them up side the head with some supreme understanding. He didn’t choose those ladies for no reason. There was something they were doing that caused them to know Him more than I did. It was at that time that I committed to do my part in knowing Him. I committed to spend time praying and reading my Bible each EACH day. I prayed that God would build in me a desire to know Him, that He would show me who He really Really is. That He would give me an “unquenchable hunger” for His word. It was then, when I stood up, reach out to Him that I truly began the journey to knowing my Lord. It was then that I began to really serve Him. Then, that I began to kindle this divine relationship with my Father.

Now, more than one year later I have grown closer to my King each day. I am not “comfortable” anymore. I am not happy in my “Christianity”. I did not realize that when I asked for an “unquenchable hunger” just how much God would answer that. The more I know Him, the more I realize how much more of Him there is to know. The more I see, the more I wan to see. He has given me just a taste of His glory and I will not be satisfied till I have received “all of the fullness of God”!

I am claiming this promise:

Mathew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

I encourage you too to claim this promise. To stand up, reach out and cling to the heart of the Father. Never letting go till you are filled.
July 28