Last week we looked at one of the best prayers a person can pray; ‘Lord, I want to want more of God’. The beauty of this prayer is God promises to answer it with a resounding yes. Psalm 37:4 says ‘Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart’. If God is what we want to enjoy the most, God will give us what we want; himself. Furthermore, Jeremiah 29:13 says ‘You will seek me and you will find me when you seek me with all your heart’. God wants us to pray that we will want to want more of him.
The next question though is, what do we do when God answers that prayer, and we find ourselves craving more God? How do we go about getting more of God? The answer is through building a deeper and more intimate relationship with him. This happens through (i) deepening the intimacy of our communication with him (i.e. Bible reading and prayer), and (ii) allowing God’s glory to impact our hearts (through meditating on God’s word).
But this poses another problem. What if I don’t want more Bible reading, meditation and prayer? If we’re being brutally honest with ourselves again, not only are our days too busy, there are other things we’d rather be doing than an extended quiet time. So like last week, how do we bring our heart (‘I’d rather be doing something else’) into line with our head (‘I know regular quiet times are the best way to get more of God’)? Well … like last week, we pray for it. We ask God to so change our hearts that the thing we look forward to the most each day, and the thing we will ‘bump’ anything else for, is spending 30-40 mins (or hey … how about an hour) with God each day. Like last week, I pray that more of us will start praying that God will make us want to GET more of him.