Our emphasis as a youth group is to love and fear God, to read His Word and have a daily “quiet time,” to worship Him in Spirit and in truth, and to share the gospel.  All of these “concepts” are true and they need to be emphasized, but we often find it hard to live them out in our daily lives.  Why?  It is our motivating factor….do we love God and eagerly seek and zealously desire to be with Him and serve Him?  This is what is really important:  Being in love with God.

When we fall in love with the Lord, he promises us so much more than just “salvation from hell;” He promises us “life to the full.”  (John 10:10)  This will include loving others (Romans 12:9-13), serving Him (Ephesians 2:10), and sharing the gospel (Mark 16:15).  The difference is that it is not an obligation to work for Him, it is our responsive actions of love for Him.

It is an unquenchable thirst for God that we desire!  “Forgetting those things which are behind, we set our eyes on Jesus.”  (Philippians 3:13)  Unquenchable means “impossible to satisfy.”