Thoughts from Matt

John 4:32
"I have food to eat that you know nothing about" – Jesus
God, we say we are hungry. We say we want to know you deeper and truly want to be desperate for you. Then why do we settle for less? We settle for the scrapes of food and the milk, which we weren’t made to have. You have placed aside real food that we were meant to feast upon and yet we ignore it.

Could it be that when we settle for less, when we settle for milk, we are denying God and who we truly are in Him. When this great story is revealed and this omnipotent and loving God comes into relationship with us are we not denying it in some way when we say no to the fullness. Are we not to take hold of everything to the fullness that He has taken hold of us?
You say that You have food that we know nothing about. Food that is beyond our finite minds to understand is out there but yet we know nothing about it. WHY?

We settle for less when we should only be settling for the Fullness of Christ. We settle for milk and are filling ourselves with it, which is turning our hearts complacent. We become comfortable where we are at so that the new seasons and revelations God is putting in front of us slowly fade away.

If we truly seek the face of God and grow in new revelations, the things that were outside our finite minds now rest within. Let our finite minds expand so that we may know and taste of this food we know nothing about and find the fullness of Christ. We say we want to know of this food by breaking off the complacent chains that have held us down for so long. The complacent life is the old. The basic principles of Christ, which we so often fall for, take place of the fresh revelations and image of Christ that is trying to break through today.

We no longer live in the understanding that we had of You last year. We no longer rely on the image we had of You yesterday. The joy and love that we had yesterday is not today’s. No, we say we want a fresh revelation of who You are. Let Your image and character become clearer everyday. Let something new fall upon us everyday. New joy, new love, new life. What was meant for last season and the season years ago no longer holds us. No, we say that season is now apart of us and we are ready for the new. We are ready for the revelation of today. The brighter and clearer image of You takes over today. Something new resides in us.
The food we know of is the basics. It is what is comfortable in our lives right now when all along it is hindering us because we are settling for anything and everything except for the fullness of Christ. There is a food, a life, a passion out there we know nothing about. Something beyond our what we can grasp. God we ask You to expand our finite brains.

Expand the limits, the old, the complacent. As we see Him, the food that we never knew about becomes apart of us. As we move into the new revelations and image of who He is; the unknown food becomes known, the impossible becomes possible.