Ezekiel 40:4 – “And He (God) said to me, Son of man, SEE with your eyes, and HEAR with your ears, and SET your heart upon ALL that I show you…”

As I prayed, read, and pondered the Word of God today, a question filled my consciousness.   “What does God want?”   As I mused on that thought, the question arose, “Is God focused on what we do?”   We are, but what is God concerned about?  What does He really want?

As I entertained those thoughts, Ezekiel 40:4 leaped off the page at me.  That passage opened my understanding as to “What God wants.”   It is actually simple.   He wants US.   He wants all of us.  He wants our whole being.   He wants our consciousness, our awareness, our hearts!  He wants that part of us; that is who we are.

We focus on the appearance embodied in our actions.  Those could reflect the heart or could be facades (masks) hiding the truth.  Pretense, hoping to earn favor with God.

God wants the heart.    He wants our total surrender.  True repentance is not remorse over acts but remorse over who we are or who we are not.   Only as we repent of being a wrong person can we receive total forgiveness and transformation.   Then, the inside flows to the outside, and the Kingdom of God in us touches those around us.

What does God want?  He wants us, all of us!   I surrender all.  Lord, let Your Kingdom be revealed in me!

Lord help us to pursue Your purposes with our entire being!