Welcome to this blog site, and thank you very much for checking it out. I have taken the name of this blog – “An Appetite for God”-- from a phrase C.S. Lewis uses in his wonderful little book Reflections on the Psalms. Lewis observes in a chapter titled “The Fair Beauty of the Lord” that though the psalmists knew less of the glory of the Lord than modern believers do, because they had not witnessed the death of the Son of God for their sakes, nevertheless they exhibit in the Book of Psalms “a longing for [God], for His mere presence, which comes only to the best Christians or to Christians in their best moments.”[1] Lewis labels this passionate desire to know God better the psalmists’ “appetite for God,” because “[i]t has all the cheerful spontaneity of a natural, even a physical, desire.”[2] In other words, these biblical writers had tasted and seen that the Lord is good (Psalm 34:8), and they knew instinctively that in God’s presence alone can human beings find “fullness of joy” (Psalm 16:11). My desire is that the Lord would be pleased to use this blog for his glory to stir up holy affections in our hearts that whet our “appetites for God,” to the point that, by his grace, we would indeed love the Lord with all we are and with all we have (Deuteronomy 6:5).
This will not be the kind of blog you necessarily need to check every day, because I will probably update it only every few days, perhaps at some times even less than once per week. However, I appreciate your stopping by today, and I pray God’s richest blessings of grace in Jesus Christ on you.
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