Simple Satisfaction

This is an amazingly beautiful poem that was a wakes note this week, and I just looked it up. It really hit home for me...

Everyone longs to give themselves completely to someone. To have a deep soul relationship with another, to be loved thoroughly and exclusively. But God to the Christian says, "No, not until you're satisified and fulfilled and content with living, loved by Me alone and giving yourself totally and unreservedly to Me, to have an intensely personal and unique relationship with Me alone.

"I love you, My child, and until you discover that only in Me is your satisfaction to be found, you will not be capable of the perfect human relationship that I have planned for you. You will never be united with another until you are united with Me -- exclusive of anyone or anything else, exclusive of any other desires or belongings.

"I want you to stop planning, stop wishing, and allow Me to bring it to you. You just keep watching Me, expecting the greatest things. Keep learning and listening to the things I tell you. You must wait.

"Don't be anxious and don't worry. Don't look around at the things you think you want. Just keep looking off and away up to Me, or you'll miss what I have to show you.

"And then, when you're ready, I'll surprise you with a love far more wonderful than any you would ever dream. You see, until you are ready and until the one I have for you is ready, I am working this minute to have both of you ready at the same time, and until you are both satisfied exclusively with Me and the life I've prepared for you, you won't be able to experience the love that exemplifies your relationship with Me, and this is perfect love.

"And dear one, I want you to have this most wonderful love. I want you to see in the flesh a picture of your relationship with Me, and to enjoy materially and concretely the everlasting union of beauty and perfection and love that I offer you with Myself. Know I love you. I am God Almighty, believe and be satisfied."

So beautiful... I am amazed by His love and excited for the future...the 'perfect relationship He has planned for me' ...
It both encourages me and challenges me to go deeper...to seek Him passionately with everything I have, which is really something I have been struggling with lately. I find myself being so focused on homework and my seemingly endless to-do list that I push aside quite time.. thinking I will get to it later and the paper that is due in 3 hours really needs a final read through first. Then, I never get back to spending that quality time with God. This summer I was amazed at the things He was showing me simply because I was investing that time into seeking Him and His will...and I have lost touch with that lately. It has really been on my heart that I truly need to put Him first in my day again...I would appreciate your prayers in this, as I know it will not be an easy task to change a habit created in the past few months being here at school.