Affections

Reflecting this morning on thoughts from Tim Keller's The Prodigal God. That I can feel excitement and pleasures in various earthly things shows me that I am capable of such emotions. And it must be they were not given simply to be felt over passing things. If God is greater than his created things, he must be capable of producing these affections in me. If I am never feeling such affections for him, there is an obvious deficiency or misdirection in my heart. As the prodigal son, we are all off in the far country of our choice, trying to find the joy and the at-homeness that can only fully and finally be found in God.