The beginning of a beautiful relationship

I just watched Julie & Julia the other day and it made me realize that all the wonderful insight I'm getting from Zumba could be shared with everyone! So, probably like a million other people did after watching that movie, I've decided to start my blog too!

Where is this coming from you say? Zumba=spiritual insight? Intriguing.....Well, I hope so, because it has certainly been interesting for me!

I had this great insight a few weeks ago, we were discussing things that have become mundane to us. Surprisingly, many people had found eating/food to be mundane. We discussed things like “it doesn’t matter how you make it, it’s still chicken” and “I’m bored with the same old recipes” and “I eat, because it’s time to eat, not really because I’m hungry”, we groaned about the holidays and how we’re glad they are over, etc.

So, the following week, I start doing Zumba. Now, I used to work out all the time, when I was younger, I ran, I lifted weights, I did aerobics, but over time I’ve gotten lazy/comfortable (“busy”) in my life and I just don’t work out anymore. So here I am returning to my “first love” exercise. I feel great, I feel stronger, I feel happy, and I feel HUNGRY! Now when it’s dinner time or lunch time, I’m not eating because it’s time to eat, I’m eating because my body needs to be fed. I eat my food and I can actually feel my body absorbing the nutrients from the food. And I’m satisfied.

So it occurred to me how similar this is to our relationship with God. We go to church on Sundays or Wednesdays, or we attend a bible study, but it’s regular, it’s just what we do because it’s time to do it. This is our 3 meals a day. Sometimes we do something special, we go to an Easter service or a Christmas service or Praise & Worship night, this is like Thanksgiving Dinner, we cook something special but it’s usually the same main dishes, and we eat a lot, because we’re expected to on Thanksgiving, right?

Bottom line, we are comfortable and we go through the same pattern of serving God the same way, with the same people, and it sometimes is mundane. We get “busy”, lazy/comfortable, and when we eat, it’s out of habit, not out of need.

But God is new every morning….there is nothing mundane about God, we are just not exercising our relationship with him. We are not challenging ourselves. We are not stretching our faith or pushing the limits of what God can do in us and through us, that is why we aren’t hungry. God is not someone that we turn to for just the standard 3 meals a day, He is our nutrition, He makes us stronger, He breaths LIFE into our body. And just as after returning to my “first love” of exercise is making me happier, stronger, and hungrier, so does turning back to our “first love”, our salvation, will make us stronger, happier, and HUNGRY for Him again.

So, I thought of this song, touches my heart and reminds me that God is sufficient in all things, all the time.

“Hungry”, here are the lyrics:
Hungry I come to YouFor I know You satisfy
I am empty but I know Your love does not run dry
So I wait for You
So I wait for You
I'm falling on my knees
Offering all my needs
Jesus You're all This heart is living for
Broken I run to YouFor Your arms are open wide
I am weary but I know Your touchRestores my life
So I wait for You
So I wait for You
I'm falling on my knees
Offering all my needs
Jesus you're all this heart is living for....