I Want To Want Thee

In a culture that is pushing the American Dream and success that is centered on more things and more experiences, our prayer should be this:

Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain! Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways. --Psalm 119:36-37

I was reading through part of Psalm 119 this morning and when I got to those verses, I was blown away. We need to pray this daily and pray that our hearts will continue to long for Him more than anything this world has to offer.

I liked the way A.W. Tozer stated the idea of us needing to long for God more in his book The Pursuit of God.

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, that so I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, "Rise up, any love, my fair one, and come away." Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

God, as the author of Psalm 119 asked we also pray that you turn our eyes from the worthless things of this world and that we will find true life only in your ways God. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.