Thoughts for Monday.

“Hear, O Lord, and be merciful to me!
   O Lord, be my helper!” {Psalm 30:10}
 
Rejoice in the fact that God is merciful and let Him be your helper. Let Him lift you out of this and into Joy. He isn’t a tame lion. He isn’t human and wishy-washy. And his love for you is like stepping into the rapids of a whitewater river.

You cannot help but be swept away and drown in it.
And in the loveliest way imaginable.

“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
C. S. Lewis

Jump off of that raft, into the rapids.

Aim at heaven and get earth thrown in.

Run after God like you are thirsty and you need the Water of Life. Run after Him as if your life depends upon it, as if your joy depends upon it. It does. Run after Him like he died for you and you’d like to thank Him face to face. Run after Him like His dying makes your living worth it. Run after Him the way the lame man ran after he had been healed; rejoicing.

Don’t choose to live asleep. Don’t choose to live sitting. Don’t choose to let all of the distractions of the flashy souped up overrated world numb you when there’s better to be had. “It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” {C. S. Lewis.}

Don’t pass up infinite joy and remain satisfied with trash. Don’t waste your life.

Run, run, run. It’s tiring but there is infinite joy waiting for you. At the finish line there is one hugely unimaginable prize to be had. Run after God with endurance and find Joy.

“...and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” {Hebrews 12:1}