The more of Christ they know

I think of the many people that say that the Bible is boring and how to the child of Christ, the Bible is about as far from boring as it can get. Once we are regenerated…given new life in Christ…our souls long for our Lord and we are fed on Scripture in a way that we can never be fed with food.

We long for Him in such a way that there is nothing else that can fulfill what is often a physical ache within us. That ache can only be satisfied with the Lord, with His Word, with the Truths of Him.

Christ takes on a whole new meaning, a whole new dimension to the regenerated soul. He becomes everything and our hearts and souls long for Him in a way that can truly never be put into words.

As our souls cry out for Christ…ever more of Christ…they are filled with joy at the glimpses of him that they are allowed to see through His word and His creation. We ache for Him and so we seek more of Him in His word and in His creation…and the more of Him we know, the more we want to know. The ache that is satisfied with the Word of the Lord, with seeing but miniscule glimpses of Him through His creation…that ache is fed and satisfied but for a moment before it grows stronger within us. The more of Christ we know, the more of Him we want to know.

Christ is beyond wonderful in the sight of the regenerated person. He is the best there is and their souls cry out for more and more of Him. They have a hunger within them that cannot be satisfied no matter how much it is fed.

Because the more they know of Christ…the more they want to know.

This aching, this longing, for Christ is often not seen by those around them. They may see glimpses of this but they cannot see the hunger that burns within the regenerate soul. Not until they are given that hunger too.

That hunger is placed within them through the grace of God that draws them to Christ when they would never have come to Him themselves. It cleanses them. It sanctifies them.

It places light within their darkened spirits. It is a holiness that is begun within them that will be completed upon their deaths.

This cleansing of their hearts is done through the Holy Spirit. It takes them over, fills them, and changes them until they are but a small example of what they were before. And it gives them a love for Christ…a longing for Him…a desire for Him…that they could never have attained in themselves.

This longing for Christ is an ache that lives within their souls. It is a hunger within them that must be fed. It is an ache that must be tended.

But the ache is never tended. The hunger never gone. Because the more of Christ they know…the more they want to know.

And so they feed it. More and more and more. Each feeding creates a desire for another feeding. Christ is what feeds the longing in their souls and Christ is what quenches the near painful ache for Him.

But the need for Christ only grows stronger the closer to Him they get.

Because the more of Christ they know…the more they want to know.