What are some specific ways that Christians can lovingly mentally engage with God?.Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?” This is deep calling unto deep, and the longing heart will understand it.

In the warm language of personal feeling this is stated in the Forty-second Psalm: “As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. On our part there must be positive reciprocation if this secret drawing of God is to eventuate in identifiable experience of the Divine.

In this divine “upholding” and human “following” there is no contradiction. The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the out working of that impulse is our following hard after Him and all the time we are pursuing Him we are already in His hand: “Thy right hand upholdeth me.” “No man can come to me,” said our Lord, “except the Father which hath sent me draw him,” and it is by this very prevenient drawing that God takes from us every vestige of credit for the act of coming. We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

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