Marriage, as well as other forms of intimate earthly love, is just a poor reflection of the love and the full knowing – we look forward to.

No matter how long you've been a Christian, it's always helpful to take a few moments to reflect on just how radically upside down the life Jesus calls us to is.

No Concept of Holiness - As humans, we have to relearn respect when it comes to releasing control to God.

The anecdote to the sick heart of disappointed hopes is to give way too desire, to make room for it ...to hope for it. To hope for God. It’s dangerous. This disappointment will mount, and it will be costly. But it is the only way to life, to truly live.

God asks you only for your emptiness: it is all you have to give.

As Christians, we trust in a God we can’t yet see in a reality still to come. Heaven will be a remarkable existence, filled with the extravagance beyond our imagination.

As we embrace, by faith, the reality of God that stands in front of us, we are in that moment living for another world, a truer world.

The moments of panic will come and go when my value is assigned by world standards.

Are we so bold? Do we know what it is to yearn for deep pleasure in the glory of God?

His kingdom, and His reality is still available for all of those who would hear His voice and answer. Even now.