When I consider the fourth beatitude’s description of hungering and thirsting for righteousness, I’m reminded of a book I read earlier this summer: Greg Hawkins’ More: How to Move from Activity for God to Intimacy with God.
Reflect on your own relationship with God. Do you ever wonder, “Is this how a relationship with God is supposed to feel?” Do you read Jesus’ promise, “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10) and wonder why you don’t have the fullness that Jesus describes?
Greg Hawkins responds, “I’m writing this book because I believe with all my being that each of us can experience the more that God has for us right here, right now. God did not invite us into a relationship so that we could just make do but so that we could experience more.”
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