The World Net Dictionary defines "desperate" in part as : "showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire."
It was Henry David Thoreau who said: "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."
I know most folks do not carry Thoreau's works with them to the woods, but I think Thoreau's words are applicable to us as children of God and believers in Jesus Christ. His words help to define for us the type of life we should live in our pursuit of the glory of Christ….
Although Thoreau was an agnostic, he spoke volumes about the struggle and fight that life can be and the resulting mental challenges that are raised from the issues that we battle….
For Thoreau, he believed that most men quietly struggled to sing the song of life that they had been given…The song of life that desperately needs to be sung, but for many, for some reason, is not able to be sung….
For us as believers, there is also a quiet struggle that we fight, not to simply sing our life songs, but to sing the songs that come from an intimate relationship with God…Our stated belief in Jesus Christ should help to free us from all the sin and struggles that hinder us or to quote James 1: Jesus enables us to be free from the sin that so easily entangles…
Folks, we are called by Christ to live desperately…Not as people who are lost, but as men who have been found and are thirsty and hungry for God…We are called to follow hard after God…We are to drink deeply of God….King David can be used as an example of a life that was lived in spiritual desperation for God…
May we be people that are desperate for God alone not because we are hopeless but because we are hopeful….May we live lives that fulfill this call and may we follow hard after God and may he reward our efforts…
Soli Deo Gloria,
JW
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