When we were in school we were expected to become proficient in a subject area. We read, wrote papers, listened to lectures, and memorized facts. When it came to morality, we acted upon certain beliefs we developed from church or from our families or peer groups. But when it comes to our relationship with God, the Christian with a new nature, is given an insatiable desire to know Him...fellowship with Him...walk with our Lord Jesus...be led, taught, and strengthened by God the Spirit. We sang a simple, but descriptive song last Sunday about this “insatiable desire” every truly born again Christian is imparted with. Here are some of the words:
This is the air I breathe
Your holy presence living in me
This is my daily bread
Your very word spoken to me
And I I'm desperate for You
And I I'm I'm lost without You

This is the kind of intimacy and desire God imparts to us when He gives us a new heart... when we believe and are changed. Ezekiel describes this:

26 Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to do My judgments. (Ezekiel 36:26-27 LSB)

This is a supreme diagnostic truth...namely, if one claims to be a Christian but cannot sing the words of the song referred to earlier, there is every reason to doubt whether that person has been born again...renewed...imparted with a new heart.

The person who has been born into God's family does not make a practice of sinning, for this new life has been born into him and controls him—he has been born again. (1 John 3:9 The Living Bible)

My prayer for me and you this day is this: Lord, continue to instill in us and make it more and more our experience to make You and Your word the very “air I breathe.” Amen

Walk with the King today and be a blessing.