Longing

"As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God!" Psalm 42:1-2

Longing is the very soul of all true prayer. Longing is . . .

the empty hand reached out to receive new gifts from Heaven;

the heart's cry which God hears with acceptance;

the ascending angel that climbs the starry ladder to return on the same radiant stairway with blessings from God's very throne;

the key that unlocks new storehouses of Divine goodness and enrichment.

Spiritual longing is, indeed, nothing less than the very life of God in the human soul, struggling to grow up in us into the fullness of the stature of Christ.

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