Restless Heart Syndrome (RHS)

You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in You. - St. Augustine 

Restless Heart Syndrome (RHS): the state of longing for more of God's presence than currently experienced in everyday life.
 
Some days you just need to be reminded that You have been made for a crazy awesome purpose: to love and be loved by God.

Sometimes we fill our lives with activity after activity- friendship after friendship- busy day after busy day... that when we go awhile like that- our hearts start to have this kinda of uneasy ache that we're missing something- something's not right. and it's because our hearts LONG to be with God. Our spirit longs to fill the joy radiate from God while He's spinning and rejoicing over us like a mad man! We can't go long without that feeling- whether it's while we're in worship (and I think that our worship just makes God go crazy- it just amps Him up- when we come into church ready and willing to lay aside our circumstances, emotions, stress- and just love on Him- it does) So we're not going to be fulfilled with anything else- because our hearts will be restless until they rest in the overwhelming love and joy of God!...we start to get RHS because we aren't fulfilling our purpose: to love and be loved by God. 


Some of us lose sight of the realness and hilarious goodness of the God that we serve. We make Him out to be a domineering perfection-seeking judge rather than a compassionate ridiculously-loving father. He's so good that even when we get on His nerves- he's good to us in hopes that it will bring us back to Him (Click this: Romans 2:4) - so we get RHS because we are forgetting our purpose: to love and be loved by God- without our opinions or own own preconceived ideas about what God thinks about us. 


What's the cure for RHS? To go on the journey of finding ourselves in the light of God's radiant joy and goodness.  When our hearts are turned toward Him fully- the mundane becomes spectacular. Worship becomes more than just words. Church becomes more than just a collection of people with issues. Our lives become more than the same ol- we begin to feel renewed, revived. Our restless heart syndrome stops because we know and we seek to bring God joy- and that comes in so many different ways: it could be:
-being the best parent you can be
-making a commitment to read your Bible daily
-being nice to your siblings/children/parents
-not just going to church but GOING to church- there's a difference. 
-applying what you read (smile)
-worshiping deeper/longer/harder than you've ever worshiped before
-letting go of bitterness/anger/resentment
All of these things just set God's feet to dancing...


I still find it amusing that God dances a jig when I start worshiping.... kinda cracks me up and blows my mind- that I can set the feet of the One who set planets in motion....to dancing! ha.