One Way

Today's blog post is going to be a little different than what I normally do, but I wanted to share with you a bit of insight I believe God gifted me with this morning. Am I the only one who has those weird half awake, half asleep dreams? It's like someone is in my room talking to me, or there's a party going on, while I'm in my bed trying to go to sleep. It feels really real while I'm dreaming - so much so that I don't want to go to sleep all the way because I don't want to be rude to the dream-phantom I'm talking to! When I do wake up completely, I look back and think how utterly stupid those dreams were, and how much good sleep I wasted! Well, this morning as I sat down to have my quiet time, I realized that this "half-asleepness" is a great analogy of our life on earth compared to our life in Heaven to come. There are so many things in our lives that seem really, really, really important in the here and now - such as what other human be...

For those just starting to read this blog, this post is the second in a series I've titled "Hunger for Heaven". Click here to read the intro to this series, and click here to read the first post. Last time, we looked at what  our longing for God should look like. This time we'll look at the more practical how  we can cultivate this longing. Ok, let's get to it! There are likely many things we can do to cultivate our longing for God, but there are two main points from my study that I would like to examine here. First, we have to have a change of mindset , and secondly, we have to shift our diet . Yup, you read that right! Hebrews 11:13-36 gives us a great example of the mindset change we need to have: " All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on the earth. People who say such thing...