Susan LaffertySarah. Wife of Abraham. Her desolate womb is noted the first time she’s ever mentioned in the Bible. What an introduction.
Beautiful Sarai left all she’d ever known because God called her husband Abram to go out. Out from the familiar. Out from his land, his relatives, his father’s house.
The conversation was one we had several times. “People have black hearts,” she would say. “People have rotten hearts.” She used the word that describes rotting fruit. Busuk.
Pressing in. There’s hunger expressed in those words. A yearning for what is real and true.
I want to press in and hear God’s Word, drawing near to the One who is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Abiding.
Sometimes it’s the hunger of my soul to do so. Other times it’s the fruit of a formed habit. Pure and simple discipline.
Regardless, I know it’s essential. Necessary.