SCRIPTURE: 2 Cor. 5:5 MSG The Spirit of God whets our appetite by giving us a taste of what’s ahead. He puts a little of heaven in our hearts so that we’ll never settle for less.

THOUGHT: We are born with a lingering hunger, we are born to be unsatisfied, penned Nicole Nordeman in a lyric that leaves me wanting more.

The restlessness of the human heart has something to do with heaven. Oh, it shows up in all sorts of crazy ways that don’t look like heaven, smell like heaven, sound like heaven, or taste of heaven. But the human heart was wired to belong there and our longings that lead to behaviors (bad and good) point us toward our desperate need for agape love, perfect shalom, un-broken joy.

We see the desire for perfection gone wrong all around us and will probably witness it in our own kitchen and dining room in the next 48 hours! But next time you feel that anger or those tears at what is rising up, ask yourself what you’re truly longing for. See if it doesn’t look a little like the slice of heaven that’s been put in your heart by a loving God.

SONG: Someday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVx9FUQvpXw

PRAYER: Oh God, in the next 48 hours we will long for peace and joy and love – and our hearts will be cut when we can’t experience it perfectly, the way we imagine. Help us in those moments remember we are strangers here, longing for a home where all those empty places and spaces are finally and infinitely filled