Nuggets from An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith by Dave Hunt - The Only Worthy Passion

Nuggets from An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith by Dave Hunt – The Only Worthy Passion

The passion of David’s heart, like Paul’s, was to know God and to be continually enjoying His presence: “My soul thirsteth for God” (Psalm:42:2My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
See All...; 63:1); “One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may…behold the beauty of the LORD” (Psalm:27:4One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
See All...); “I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord…that I may know him” (Phillippians 3:8-10). Could anything else be more worthwhile? “Turn your eyes upon Jesus; Look full in His wonderful face; And the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.”

As a young Christian I thought that Hebrews:11:6But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
See All... (“he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and the is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him”) was the formula for getting things from God. If I would seek Him, as the verse prescribed, then He would reward me with the “things of the earth” that I wanted. How could I have missed the fact that I was to “diligently seek Him”? And how could I truly seek Him if what I really wanted was not Him at all but other things? And would it not be a bad bargain indeed if, instead of God as my reward, I received things?

What can the result be when all we want is God and He rewards us with Himself? It can’t be less than a taste of heaven here on earth, “Joy unspeakable and full of glory” (1 Peter:1:8Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
See All...). Heaven? We give it too little thought. It’s the place where everyone wants to go – but not just yet. For many Christians, heaven is a last resort, welcome only when they are too old or too ill to enjoy any longer the deceitful pleasures of this evil world.

How can we truly desire God’s presence in our lives here and now if we would only reluctantly exchange earth for heaven? To be in heaven is to be in His presence. Do we really desire and enjoy God’s presence? Wouldn’t that be like being in church all the time – bored, restless, watching the clock, eager for it to end? What an indictment! And what further proof is needed that there is very little of God in most churches in spite of claims to the contrary.