Things somehow don't seem as important as they once were

"As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?" Psalm 42:1-2

This last year has been a year of awesomeness for me and my family. In Jan last year, my husband and I made a decision that has changed us forever. We decided to make God a priority in our lives. To remove Him from the back burner and place Him first in everything. I have been a Christian since I was about 8 years old, But until this last year I never knew what it meant to have a personal relationship with God. WOW! It is the most amazing thing. The closer I grow to God, the more I learn about who He truly is the more my Soul yearns and craves Him. I have experienced a joy inside my soul that I never knew was possible.
God made us to crave Him. He made us to have a thirst, a need, a want, that only He can quench and fulfill. He made us to want Him and need Him. I have found that when we finally realize that and give into our need for Him, the want and need for worldly things tends to fade away. Those things somehow don't seem as important as they once were. I look at my home. The things that my family and I have possessed over the years, and I have to say that I am a bit ashamed that we have so much stuff. We don't need it. And most of it just sits there looking pretty anyway, LOL, collecting dust. We had been trying to fill the need in our souls with worldly things. When all we really needed in our hearts was God. I'm not saying that now we don't struggle or have hard times. As Christians, we will always suffer and struggle as Jesus did for us. But somehow those struggles seem so distant from our minds and hearts. They don't have the same effect on us as they use to.
To some, struggles may seem so harsh and difficult to over come. You maybe thinking, is it really that easy? Find God and life will be different? My answer to you is, YES!! Find God and have a personal relationship with Him and life will be different. I didn't say it would be easy, I said it would be different. The key is though that you need to have a relationship with Him. Take it from someone who found Him years ago, But never really knew Him. I think about all those years with out investing myself into Him and man, how different I might have handled so many things. If I could do it all over again, I sure would, while holding His hand.
We will always crave God. No matter how close a person gets. Until we are standing next to Him in heaven our souls will always pant for Him. I wonder though, even in heaven if we will long to be next to Him always. I sure hope so.
I pray that you will realize how bad your soul is panting for God. That you will open your heart to Him and build a strong relationship with Him. I pray that you will see how amazing He truly is. He loves you so very much and wants nothing more than for you to invite Him in to your life. I pray that you will do just that.
With God's Love,
Christian