While worshiping yesterday, we sang the song “Breathe”… This song creates powerful imagery of the human state without Jesus. For me it forces me to confess that I am in a serious , “life threatening” situation if I neglect to exalt Jesus as sovereign king of my life… daily. (Just like David has been teaching in Exodus 33)
“And I I’m desperate for you
And I I’m I’m lost without you”
Desperate -
adjective
1. reckless or dangerous because of despair or urgency: a desperate killer.
2. having an urgent need, desire, etc.: desperate for attention.
3. leaving little or no hope; very serious or dangerous: a desperate illness.
4. extremely bad; intolerable or shocking: clothes in desperate taste.
5. extreme or excessive.
6. making a final, ultimate effort; giving all: a desperate attempt to save a life.
7. actuated by a feeling of hopelessness.
8. having no hope; giving in to despair.
One of the things that come to mind is someone drowning. They are desperate for air. Fighting, clawing, thrashing violently to get to the top. There are stories of “rescuers” getting killed trying to help drowning people to the top. They are violently, passionately, laser focused on one goal… One objective… Air.
Would to God that my life was passionately, “reckless”, and laser focused on grasping Jesus Christ as the very air I need in this life. I need to come to the realization that I can do nothing with out Jesus… That without Jesus I am most miserable!!! I need Jesus more than I need work or money or friends or promotion or programs or church or a house or car or comfort… I need Jesus more than ANYTHING!!!
Phil.3:8-14 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. Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.Jesus… I am desperately, gasping for you like a drowning man…
