Heart to Heart

You know that feeling you get in your heart when it literally feels heavy? Its like you can physically experience sadness sometimes. My heart feels like that right now. It isn't anything resulting from today. . . today has been wonderfully beautiful and enjoyable. . . This particular sadness stems from a longing deep within that has grown much stronger over the last few months. It is a longing that is painful because it is completely out of my control. I cannot will it to be so by my own strength or manipulating. Oh, how I wish I could!

At the center of my longing stands two people who I love very much: Jesus and you. I cannot express to you how much I long for you to know and love Christ. . . to experience the life He offers and the love He died to give. I would give anything to share what I have learned over these last few years in a way that would open your heart to what it truly means to follow Christ.

But I can't. I can't open your heart to anything. The life that you live is between you and your Maker. It is your choice, and no convincing words on my behalf will change you. I am not God.

I have to admit that there are times when I wish my carefully crafted words would seep into corners yet unreached and challenge and change souls for an eternity. . . but I have to admit (with humility) that even if your life was changed after reading words I had written it would have been an act of God using my words despite myself.

I don't have it altogether. . . I am not perfect. But I have started to understand the Gospel in an entirely new way. I understand the purpose of life and the reason I exist with a different kind of clarity. I will never know it all, but I certainly know more than I did. And with this knowledge has come a sense of confidence, and freedom, and passion, and joy that I have never felt before with such great intensity.

I long for you to experience the same. It is literally painful sometimes when I think that some of you might be missing the very best life has to offer. I'm not trying to be proud. I'm being honest. If you are reading this right now, and somewhere in your heart you understand and agree. . . if on some level you recognize that you are missing something, anything, then I want to give you one challenge. And you have to promise me you'll do it. Deal?

Message me.

You don't have to do it here - or anywhere that others can see it. But if in this very moment you feel any small sense of incompleteness or aloneness or confusion. . . message me.

There is absolutely nothing I would rather do than tell you about the love and joy that has filled my life to overflowing. It doesn't matter if you've been a Christian for 10 years, or 10 months, or if you wouldn't consider yourself a Christian at all. And it doesn't matter if we've been friends forever or if we've never actually met. I'm not going to try and change you, because I can't. I will only share what I know through the experiences I've had. . . and in doing so pray that God would reveal Himself afresh to you.

Praying for you today. . .