“If you don’t feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.” John Piper
“If we do not discipline our desire, we will crowd out the hunger for God through which we find our blessedness. Self-indulgence, even in seemingly harmless things, can slowly lead us away from the place where our soul truly longs to be.” Cameron Lee
Both quotes are from Unexpected Blessing by Cameron Lee
We often expected to be satisfied NOW. But Jesus, in the Beatitudes, teaches that our gratification is going to be delayed. We hunger and thirst now. We struggle with mixed longings as well as mixed motives. The belief that we get it all now, and experience no such longings for personal, imparted righteousness (as opposed to imputed righteousness) and that we have all we could want, is an over-realized eschatology. It over-estimates the ‘already’ portion of our salvation, forgetting that there are “not yet” aspects. We live as pilgrims
Cavman Considers 
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