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"Feel the deepest longings in your soul that will never be fully satisfied until heaven. Don't be afraid of sadness. Face the hidden sin in your heart that makes it clear how undelighted you are. Don't be afraid of the brokenness. Let the pain of disappointed longings and the guilt of terrible sin drive you to consider the gospel in a new way. Only then will Christ enter your life and deeply change you from the inside out, installing in you a growing awareness of his relentless love and sustaining hope for a better day." -Larry Crab

The world is broken. Its imperfect. As humans we are broken. We are imperfect. We cause each other pain. The world causes us pain. Sin is painful. It hurts and leaves us unsatisfied. Leaves us with holes striving to be filled. But we're so immune to the pain. We shrug it off and don't allow ourselves to experience the deepness of the hurt that is actually consuming us. FEEL THE PAIN. Let the pain and the sadness and the longing drive you ever more the Christ, where on the cross he took on pain, and loneliness, and despair, and frustration. He understands it. He's been there and he wants to help because he's the answer. Until heaven he is the most satisfaction my longing soul will ever feel. No matter what I'm really searching for he will fill the void. But its okay to feel. Its okay to be sad, and angry, and lonely, and desperate, and failed because that's a product of sin. My sin and the sin of others around me. People will fail me, they will let me down, they will hurt me and make me cry. No matter how hard I try they will never completely fulfill me. Even good relationships will only be temporary and will involve moments of hurt because my soul wants more than they can give. Every piece of my brokenness, and the hurt I experience, everything should be pointing me closer and closer to the redeeming love of my savior. He fills the spaces between my broken pieces and makes me whole. Even when I feel unworthy he does this for me because no matter what I am his. I am his family and he love me. He loves me.

"So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God." -Ephesians 2:19

I am a member of the household of God. Let that sink in and hit you.