I have been saved for 32 years and if I have learned anything during this time it is this...in order to live a successful Christian life and experience God in a real and fulfilling way you must desire the things of God. This is God's original plan that we would desire Him and trust that everything He tells us is the only way to true happiness and prosperity.
To the extent that we desire the things of the world we will find the ways of God to be hard, unpleasant, and uninteresting. This does not mean that you never wish you had more interest in Him but that interest never produces fruit because we have rooted our ways in the philosophies of this world (see Mark 4:1-20). We seek happiness, fulfillment, love, excitement, success, and all other issues of prosperity through the world's ungodly system of humanism. It's like many Christians are seeking to reap the benefits of a 2011 MacBook Pro while operating off the original MS-DOS system for x86 PC's. You're expectations are impossible to achieve. You are seeking cutting edge, efficient programming with beautiful images on your screen and all you're getting is orange letters, numbers and no pictures on a black screen. You must update your operating system.
Matthew 5:6 "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled." This is a promise of God to all those that would desire greatly His ways. This is the operating system we should install and update on a daily basis.
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