In the shower this morning the song "Hungry" was blasting through my iPod dock. Being in the shower usually puts me into a contemplative mood in the first place and this morning before hopping in was no exception. However, I normally don't have so much to contemplate. Just before getting in the shower, I was reading the second chapter in a book Steven and I started called Radical by David Platt. As I was listening to the song, I was struck by the thought, "am I really hungry for more of Him?" In his book, David Platt challenges America's Christianity and forces us to look back at the Jesus of the Bible (not the Bible belt). That being a "christian" is more about how you follow Jesus than a prayer you said or something you hold onto for salvation. It's a longing. In his words (speaking of the gift of salvation), "But that gift of grace involves the gift of a new heart. New desires. New longings. For the first time, we want God. We see our need for him, and we love him. We seek after him, and we find him, and we discover that he is indeed the great reward of our salvation. We realize that we are saved not just to be forgiven of our sins or to be assured of our eternity in heaven, but we are saved to know God. So we yearn for him. We want him so much that we abandon everything else to experience him. This is the only proper response to the revelation of God in the gospel." Convicting, no? As I was standing in the shower this morning the cry of my heart was to know more of him. To truly know my Savior. Not what others have told me, not what books say about him, not what I've heard preached - but to truly and intimately know the Jesus of the Bible. Tears flowed down my face in joy as I saw the hunger in my heart for my Lord and Savior. Renewed hope. It is so easy to get lost in the everyday stuff of life, to get hung up on the little things and lose focus of the One Thing that is really important. This morning I had to go to work, but I don't have to this weekend. And I'm hungry!
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