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The
Soul's Craving
The soul's cravings will not all be fully met and
satisfied while here in the body. It was created for
greater freedom, for more perfect vision, for greater
knowledge, and for a closer union with Christ. The veil of
flesh hangs between the redeemed soul and heavenly
realities of which it has a consciousness and for which it
longs. The soul in love with Christ finds great delight in
thinking about the mansion Jesus has gone to prepare and
where it shall look into His face as it cannot here.
Redeemed man does not have much to do with earthly things
compared with his activities amid heavenly things. While
in the body he needs to at tend to some things here, but
he lives mostly in eternity. There are no cravings of the
soul for the things of the lower life; its cravings are
all for things above. Be sure that you distinguish between
the two. It is possible to mistake the cravings of the
flesh, the intellect, the sentimental for the craving of
the spirit. The mind of man may hunger for an intellectual
knowledge of God while the soul has no hunger for God. The
soul that longs after God finds the hour of communion with
God the sweetest of all the life. It has no thirstings for
life's pleasures.
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