From today’s devo:

Jesus didn’t seek to do His Father’s will only from a sense of obligation. There was no drudgery in it. It wasn’t a matter of gritting His teeth and getting it done so He could go about His other business…

I think in the early (and possibly childhood) days of our Christian lives, this is what ‘seeking/desiring God’ meant. You did it because that’s what you were told. You read the bible, you prayed every night because you felt as a Christian, that’s what you were obligated to do (even more so when you are baptized).

But as that line above says, Jesus didn’t desire to do God’s will just because he was obligated to, and neither should we. If we understand the magnificence of God and what he has blessed us with, our desire to do God’s will; to live a life that glorifies Him, should come naturally out of love and reverence for God.

I pray that I can remind myself of that when life brings trouble (it’s hard I know, life sucks sometimes).