Synonyms: thirstiness, dryness, parched, craving, strong desire, longing, yearning, avidity, hunger, voracity, keenness, eagerness, lust, appetite, passion, love, crave, want, covet, desire, hunger for/after, lust for/after, hanker for/after, have one's heart set on
Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation
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51. All Saints' Sunday
Mt 5:1-12 · 1 Jn 3:1-3 · Isa 26:1-21 · Rev 7:9-17; 21:9-11, 22-27; 22:1-5 · Ps 24 · Ps 34 · Ps 149
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Russell F. Anderson
... as peace is so incomplete and tentative. Peace is often enforced by the barrel of a gun and is usually understood as a cessation of open hostilities. The peace of God comes from within, when our minds and hearts are focused on God. Yearning for God (v. 9). The Psalmist expresses a deep yearning for God. For many people, they want to keep the Lord at a distance but the saints of God have a deep desire for intimate sharing of their life with the Lord. They have tasted of the goodness of the Lord and know ...
52. Epiphany 8
Mt 6:24-34 · 1 Cor 4:1-13 · Is 49:8-18 · Ps 131
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Russell F. Anderson
... people of Israel will hunger and thirst no more, he doesn't mean that their hunger and thirst will be eliminated but that they will be satisfied. To hunger and thirst for God and the kingdom is a good thing; God will never eliminate that spiritual yearning. To do so would lead to complacency and self-satisfaction. Never God forsaken. God's chastised people felt forsaken by their Redeemer. "My Lord has forsaken me, my Lord has forgotten me" (v. 14). Even those closest to the Almighty have felt this way at ...
53. The Beauty Of Holiness
Psalm 96:1-13, Psalm 29:1-11
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Clement E. Lewis
... is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. God is a spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth." (See John 4:19-24) All of us yearn for the experience of "worship in the beauty of holiness." The psychiatrist, Von Frankl, held that the urge to worship is instinctive in children in much the same way as the urge to nurse. He suggested that the ages of four and five are the times when children ...
Eulogy
Alan R. Lindberg
... love of God, which is ours through Christ Jesus our Lord." We may doubt his power and love at times, but there is no doubt that he would have each and every one be his child. To be cradled in the loving arms of our heavenly father brings forth a yearning in the depths of the human soul. This is the peace ________ wanted to have so much. This is the rest from the war that waged within her - The Peace which passes all understanding has brought rest. God's love is deeper than we can ever plumb and grasp. One ...
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Mark Ellingsen
... the sort of preparation that frees us truly to receive all the benefits that the Lord's supper provides - to experience the real significance of his sacrament in our lives! If you have truly repented of your pride, see yourself as totally dependent on God, yearn to serve him and your neighbor, then you will never again just go through the motions in receiving this sacrament. You will really be prepared to receive it. Of course, there is still a problem with this whole matter of some kind of preparation for ...
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Mark Ellingsen
... is tempted by the messenger of falsehood to do what everybody in Israel expected the Messiah to do - to be a political leader who would conquer the kingdoms that oppressed the Jews. Does not the world also tempt us with the promise of power? Do we not yearn to achieve - to be famous, to exercise influence, to be somebody in the community or in the company whom everybody admires or perhaps regards with a bit of fear? Oh, but Jesus saw through the tempter's ruse. His tempter wanted him to worship evil. That ...
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Mark Ellingsen
... . Is that not the way it is with us? One moment we sing God's praises and seek with all our heart to walk in his ways. The next moment, or even as we think we are walking in faith, it is all marred by our egocentricity and our yearning for the acclaim of the crowd. At least this is what happened to two of Jesus' disciples and their mother. Here is the story: James and John, two sons of Zebedee, were among Jesus' 12 disciples. In fact, they were prominent among his disciples. According to Matthew, they were ...
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Erskine White
... , knows the depths of our sorrows better than we can know them ourselves, we pray for those who are troubled or afflicted of body or spirit today: ... for those whose loved ones are far away, and who yearn for the day when no distance shall come between them; ... for those who are ill or in pain, and who yearn for the day of healing and release; ... for those who need Your company, O God, but cannot find it. Heal their emptiness, and fill them with Your Word, that their cup may runneth over, and they may ...
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Donald Zelle
... they shall be his people ... he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more.' " (Revelation 21:2-4a) These are words of promise. They lead the Christian to sing, "Jerusalem, the Golden, what bliss beyond compare!" And, "Jerusalem, whose towers touch the skies, I yearn to come to you." Again, "Jerusalem, my happy home, would God I were in thee!" These hymns express life under the perfect reign of God. They relate the joining of the saints forever. And they tell of the Christian ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... . This is the most accurate picture of God that I know. Too often our concept of God is limited to the Old Testament, which portrays God as judge and record keeper, ready to zap us info torment if we stray. Jesus shows us God as the forgiving and yearning parent, loving us with such deep concern and care that his heart is heavy when that love is refused, spurned, rejected. It is no wonder the prophet Jeremiah said, "There is no sorrow like unto his sorrow." Jesus had the best to offer and if was refused. He ...
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Alan Bacon Bond
... sees in the mind of God is not ultimately the submission of nature, but its replacement with a new form, a nature not subject to decay, destruction, and turmoil. The new creation is inevitable ... and it is peaceful. There is, in Peter, and you ... and me, something which yearns for that time, beyond this earth's death. But STOP! The prophet Amos cries to us from the pages of the Old Testament a perplexing warning: Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why would you have the day of the Lord? It is ...
62. Lent 4
Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 · 1 Cor 1:18-31 · 2 Cor 5:17-21 · Isa 12:1-6 · Jos 5:9-12
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John R. Brokhoff
... 20 B. Is a reconciliation possible? vv. 18, 21 C. Who effects the reconciliation today? v. 20 2. Do You Want to be a New Person? 5:17. Need: There are many who do not like themselves as they are. They are disgusted with their failures, selfishness, and excesses. They yearn to be different, to be lovable, and to be a loving person who gets joy out of life. Here is good news for those who want to be new people. Outline: How to become a new person - A. Be in Christ - "If anyone is in Christ ..." B. Forsake the ...
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Various Authors
... from seminary. There were some marital difficulties which resulted in separation and finally divorce. Richard resigned from the church he was serving when this happened, and for the next three years worked as a salesman. But he yearned to return to the ministry and let that yearning be known in the Presbyterian circles. A church in Louisville, Kentucky, interviewed him but felt it could not accept a divorced minister. A church in Tennessee gave him a call, but the Knoxville presbytery turned him down ...
64. The Three Faces of God
2 Corinthians 13:11-14
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Robert G. Tuttle
... acting upon the world’s needs in Jesus. What Jesus said and did was a true revelation of God. ‘Very God, very man’ fits." The threefold concept of God may be just what the struggling youth of the world need in their search for meaning. This youthful yearning is well expressed in this selection from the musical, Hair: Where do I go? Follow the River. Where do I go? Follow the gulls. Where is the Something, Where is the Someone That tells me why I live and die? Follow my heartbeat Where do I go? Follow ...
65. Amazing Grace
Romans 3:21-31
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Robert G. Tuttle
... the grace of changed nature I was amazed I knew that now I was determined to do right; but I was surprised to note that now I really desired to do right. Whereas, before, I had liked evil and was bored by goodness; now, I hated evil and was yearning after goodness - I was a new being! Grace never forces us; we can reject grace. Listen to Oscar Wilde as he described his own fall from grace. God had given me almost everything ... Tired of being on the heights I deliberately went to the depths in search of a ...
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Robert G. Tuttle
... have said: "At the time it seemed the correct expression of my anger and, if successful, just might have triggered a kind of chaos that could have started the upheaval of change." We are now moving somewhat beyond the peak of this madness toward a dawning, yearning hunger for some kind of dependable order. In reaction to all this, a group of concerned intellectuals met in New York in 1969. I remember how disturbed I was by their findings: "The world is absolutely out of control now, and it isn’t going to ...
67. The Miracle of Christ
Ephesians 3:14-21
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Robert G. Tuttle
... my character, and that I had to be willing for this to happen, in my conscious and subconscious being, before he could set me free. Then, strange mysterious things took place deep within my inner being. Faith was given. I was surprised by my new moral hunger. My whole nature yearned to obey God. I cared for others, and I couldn’t help it. My life was rich, and growing; and I knew who I was, and where I was going. I wasn’t afraid of death. All of this meant peace and light, a new creation a gift, a ...
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Raymond Gibson
... , thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, This fond desire, this longing for immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul back on herself And startles at destruction? (Cato, act V, sc. 1) But no one yearns for life beyond death quite as much as the contemporary person. No one spends as much on cosmetics to belie advancing age as do the people of the generations of which you and I are a part. No one pays their morticians more to disguise ...
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Bill Bouknight
... he can't bring himself to do that. There are higher life forms than the monkey that fall for the same trap. Then there is the rope of resentment that can bind us...all those collected grievances of the years that we yearn to pay back with interest, all our angry yearning that so-and-so get what's coming to him. When the poet Edwin Markham reached the age of retirement, he discovered that his banker, who he thought was his friend, had defrauded him. Markham thought he was financially secure for retirement ...
70. Because He Lives
1 Corinthians 15:12-34
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Bill Bouknight
... two beavers who were standing near the Hoover Dam. It was a grandfather beaver and his young grandson. The youngster, gazing at that huge dam, said, "Grandpa, did you build that thing?" "No, son," he said, "but it was based on an idea of mine." The worldwide yearning for eternity is based on an idea God planted deep within human minds. In verse 12 of our text, Paul asked almost with disbelief: "How can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?" One can almost guess what had created a problem for ...
71. No Retaliation
Matthew 5:38-42
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Bill Bouknight
... , he went against our nature. Ever since a well-known Memphis politician referred to those of us who live on the east side of Memphis as devils, many people have been yearning for retaliation. But maybe the only way to prove him wrong is to refuse to retaliate. Millions of Americans who are convinced that O.J. Simpson is guilty are yearning for retaliation. Suppose all of us answered this question honestly: Am I more eager that Mr. Simpson suffer for what I believe he did, or am I more eager that he ...
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Bill Bouknight
... we are made in the image of God: our ability to reason and our conscience. A third one is our longing for eternity. Deep in our psyche, we know that we are transients here on earth. We can't ever really settle down here. All human beings ponder eternity. Some yearn for it; some are terrified by it. But none can ignore it. Why? Because we are made in the image of an eternal God. A final evidence of our kinship with God is our capacity for fellowship with God. There is a God-shaped hole in our psyche that ...
73. Someone At the Door
Revelation 3:14-22
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Bill Bouknight
... of a day, engaging in much conversation and fellowship. It is this meal that is mentioned in verse 20 of our scripture. It is this meal that Jesus wants to share with us...a time of intimate fellowship. Doesn’t it blow your mind to know that Jesus Christ yearns to hang out with people like you and me? Despite all our frailties, failings and sins, God Almighty longs to be close to us. That is just amazing! HERE IS THE THIRD TRUTH THAT I FIND IN OUR SCRIPTURE: THE NEXT MOVE IS OURS. Jesus cannot do anything ...
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William McKee Aber
... Perhaps he’s saying, "I’m not sure just what I’m supposed to believe any more, but if I don’t stand for something I won’t have anything left," so he makes what we translate as an anti-Protestant statement, but what is really a wistful yearning for something on which to hold. If your children come running home with the tale that their Catholic playmates told them they’re going to hell because they’re Protestants, I can assure you they didn’t learn it at Saint Teresa’s! Long before the thaw ...
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David E. Leininger
... the most commonplace action of all - the breaking of bread in an ordinary meal - that it dawns on them who this is.(1) The question comes again. What is it that keeps their eyes from recognizing Jesus, the one whom we would think they would yearn to see more than anyone in the world? Cleopas and Elizabeth are followers of Jesus, after all. They care about him; they lingered in Jerusalem after his death, risking arrest, until they heard those bewildering rumors of resurrection. On the road, he was even the ...
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