Loving God with All My Heart

Call it a craving, a longing, or a desire. We all have an empty feeling within us that demands to be filled, that cries out to be satisfied, that won't let us rest until it's relieved.

We try hard to satisfy it. Some find relief in relationships. Some find satisfaction in work. But even the best friend or job is temporary, and when we sense loss, the old feelings of emptiness return, and along with them come temptations that suggest compromising ways to avoid this feeling, temptations that we thought we had outgrown long ago.

We can't believe that what we long for could possibly be bad for us. In the back of our minds, the question lurks, "How can it be wrong when it feels so right?"

Clearly, our desires are at war within us. Even when we want to do what is right, temptation gets the best of us time after time. After a while we think, why bother to try to resist?

The apostle Paul summarized the situation well when he wrote, "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do" (Romans 7:15).

In Loving God with All My Heart, Julie Ackerman Link explores the relationship between desire and behavior.

One of the most amazing things to discover about God is that his highest desire is our highest good. This realization stirs within us a desire to know God better, to find out what he desires, and to get our desires to match his. For when we want what God wants, we'll find everything we need and long for.

Julie Ackerman Link is an editor and writer. She is a founding partner of Blue Water Ink, a company providing writing, editing, designing, and typesetting services for publishers. She is the author of four other titles in the Loving God Series and is a contributor to the popular devotional Our Daily Bread. Julie and her husband, Jay, live near Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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