Desire – to long or hope for
Where are my desires? Who or what do I long for? As a born-again believer I know the answer…GOD. I can express what it looks like to desire God. I can give a laundry list of what I need to do to show the world what I truly long and hope for. I can SAY all this but why can't I DO it? If I truly have a desire to know my Savior and to make him known, how is it that I only do it some of the time? Shouldn't my life scream Christ??
After frustration towards myself sets in, I remember something. Who do I serve? Isn't my God all powerful? Isn't it He who gives me breathe every day? Isn't it He who saved me and adopted me as His daughter? I NEED TO ASK HIM TO GIVE ME THE DESIRE FOR HIM!! I am not able to do it on my own. Why do I act as if I can? But, this is in no way to say that I can just sit back and do nothing. I need to ask myself what are the things that I am desiring above my Savior? Is He first in my life in ALL things?
Philippians 3:7-11 "But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith-that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead."
