Wednesday... What we long for can be a good thing. But it can also be something that can hurt us. I'm sitting in my Starbucks writing this and a guy asked me if the Honda motorcycle out front was mine and I said it wasn't. And he then said that he was just getting back to work after an accident on his motorcycle that he had totaled but he was longing for his next one. There can be something that we long for that can be dangerous but it is still what we want. Now I'm not saying that motorcycles are bad but they can be dangerous. So what are you longing for? David in Psalm 42:1 (NLT) says, "As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for God." Now a deer needs water to survive. That is a longing that is of great benefit to the deer and the same is true of our longing for God. He then says in verse 2a, "I thirst for God, the living God." Now what we long for has a way of controlling us. It is where our battles for control come in. I love donuts but I ...
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