craving right relationship

Sorry for the late post, but here's week 4 and hopefully I'll have week 5 up in the next couple days.

Righteousness seems like a scary christianese term, but I really appreciate DJ's emphasis, that it simply means right relationship. And God's laws are given in the context of that relationship. Disobedience means we aren't taking the relationship seriously. No wonder God is grieved by our sin, because when we sin we are telling God we don't think the relationship he offers is worth enough for us to live in the way he calls us to, oof. But, good news! God longs for right relationship with us, and he hasn't given up! We also have that longing, and when we let that longing heal our other appetites, there's the promise that we'll be satisfied. It reminds me of what DJ said in the 10 commandments series that only an infinite God can fill our finite hearts. Relationship with him is what fills us, satisfies, and makes all of the other relationships work the way they were made to. I was reading that in Psalm 34:8 when it says "taste and see that the Lord is good" the word taste has the implication of "try this, you'll like it." Praying that as I taste and remember God's goodness, I'll crave him even more.