This is a state of dire need, to be desperate for God is an acceptable position before the Lord. He responds to those who earnestly seek Him. (Heb. 11:6) Many times Israel was in dire situations, surrounded, under siege by overwhelming forces and God intervened bringing miraculous deliverance in a hopeless circumstance. We shouldn’t wait until we are overwhelmed to recognize our desperate need for God. Desperation led young people to seek Jesus during the Jesus Movement revival. The drug culture, war, sexual proliferation and government corruption created a heaviness within the sin sick soul of multitudes of youth during the the early 1970’s. A longing for peace, healing and deliverance from substance abuse led that generation to seek Jesus and accept His message of forgiveness, redemption and renewal.
The Holy Spirit is still calling and responding to desperate souls today. As a Believer we should experience the holy longing for our Lord. The book “Pilgrim’s Progress” finds Christian, Faithful, Hopeful and other characters falling into traps of the enemy, going wayward by seeking shortcuts, or deceived into following a dangerous path instead of the one to the Celestial City. Yeshua said, “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33)
Part of this temporal life on earth is to develop a vibrant personal relationship with Yeshua. We see this as Jesus mentored the twelve apostles. The scriptures clearly portray a disciples ultimate destiny as one of total surrender and submission, even as sheep being led to slaughter. (Rom. 8:36; Ps. 44:22) We come to understand that our desperation is not for comfort and pleasure, which doesn’t satisfy, but for His presence that does. What we earnestly seek is heavenly, eternal, altogether righteous, all the things that Jesus described and offered in His words of life. He led the way and it was a way of hardship mixed with joy, surrendering all to possess infinite treasure, dying to a temporal life to inherit eternal life.
I once wrote a message to myself, put on the wall in big letters, “ACCEPT IT”. This was my part, my duty and work. Jesus accomplished everything necessary for me to have God’s love, acceptance, approval, blessing, adoption into His family, righteousness, forgiveness, and finally ultimately eternal life in heaven with Him. Do you believe Him and accept all that comes from His hands, irrespective of whether it seems hard or humiliating or delightful? (1 John 5:11-12, 4:13; Heb. 13:20-21; Isa. 55:11-13) It takes time, but He gives that too.
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