Do You Have a Real Desire for God? If Not? Why Not? God Is Near If You Desire Him? Jesus Said, "Come Unto Me . . ."!

Do you truly desire God?!

A New Devotional for a New Month for Monday September 1, 2025

Do You Have a Real

Desire for God?

“My soul yearns for you in the night, my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness”

Isaiah 26: 9.

And is it thus with your soul indeed? Happy man! It is grace that has your soul, though sin at present works in thy flesh. Yea, all these breathings are the very actings of grace; even of the grace of desire, of love, of humility, and of the fear of God within you. Be of good courage, you are on the right side. Your desires are only good; for that you have desired against your sin, your sinful self; which indeed is not yourself but sin that dwells in thee.

[Consider] The distinct or particular desires of the righteous.

I come . . . to speak of desires more distinctly or particularly, as they work this way and that. First, . . . the desires of the righteous are either such as they would have accomplished here [while alive]; or, Second, such as they know they cannot come at the enjoyment of till after death.

[There are some] Desires that may be accomplished or enjoyed in this life.

For the first of these, the desires of the righteous are for such good things as they could have accomplished here. That is, in this world, while they are on this side glory. And they, in general, are comprised under these two general heads: —

1. Communion with their God in spirit or spiritual communion with him.

2. The liberty of the enjoyment of his holy ordinances. And indeed, this second is, that they may both attain to and have the first maintained with them.

Now they desire communion with God. “With my soul,” he said, “have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early” (Isaiah 26: 9). The reason of this he renders in the verse foregoing, saying, “The desire of our soul is to thy name and to the remembrance of thee.”