What Are You and I Desperate For?

"I'm crying out in desperation
Waiting now in expectation.
Crying out in desperation for You."

As I'm worshiping God on Sunday morning, this song (Heaven Fall Down) was the last song we sang, and it made me think first of a few people that need to be "desperate" for God.  Some of them need to even want to be desperate for God, and I'm not sure they realize it. So I was praying as I sang, "God make them desperate for you."

Then I was convicted by my own need to be desperate for God.  So, since I don't have a lot of typing time, I'll just jump into sharing some areas that I need to be - and am - desperate for God.

• Wisdom for Shari and I to care for couples that God has placed in our lives.  Some of them are in crisis, some just need input from a couple who have been around the block a few more years than them (like 10+ more years).  We can't just depend on our experience, but we need to speak from God's heart and mind.
• Creating adventure and spiritual lessons with Shari for my boys so that they're not learning life lessons the much harder way of jumping into sin and discovering just how empty it is.
• Depending on God for our provision rather than being content with just getting a paycheck.  That is, I want to be aware that God's always the one providing, not our church (my employer), not my hard work, and not taking it for granted.
• I need to want to be desperate for God... so much so that I don't fall into the variety of traps Satan places to distract me with good things that aren't God's things in my life.
• I want to make my love for and life with Shari to be an adventure we do together, and not just do life together floating along and being content with whatever happens, or - even worse - each of us doing our own thing rather than ministering and living life and raising kids and - most importantly - growing in Christ together as a team.

So those are some thoughts that occurred to me during our time of worship on Sunday.  I still pray that others would be desperate for God, but I want to make sure that my heart is pursuing Him that way and not get cocky or prideful about how others aren't.