Kyknet Lent Guide 2022Sample

God created each of us with a great capacity for deep longing... and each of us interpret that longing or desire in a different way.

For some of us, that longing is interpreted as a search for the ideal partner. For others, it’s the perfect house and car. For others still, it’s achieving a position in their career. But we get to a point where we feel: it’s not enough. I háve the house. I háve the job. I have the wife and kids. It’s not enough. Something is missing. It’s empty.

Behind every longing is a deeper longing that we must come into contact with. Paul says in Ephesians 5:5: “... you can be sure that using people or religion or things just for what you can get out of them... the usual variations of idolatry, you can be sure, it will get you nowhere, surely nowhere near the Kingdom of God.”

He says that there is a place in my life, a longing in my life, that is reserved only for God and His Kingdom. God is my source. Nothing and no one, save God, can release me from that desire. That is where my happiness lies. That is where my security lies. That is where my life lies. It doesn’t mean that God doesn’t use other people to meet my needs, or that he doesn’t meet my needs through things. But He is the source. He is the origin, and that changes everything when it comes to meeting my needs if I know that it all comes from God. He made me with these needs and desires inside of me, and I look to Him for their fulfillment.

Reflection

Which of the desires of your heart feed your relationship with God?

Grace

Lord, I ask for the grace to articulate the longings of my heart.