Desperate

What big challenge(s) do we face this week that will only be overcome by supernatural strength? What great task(s) are we called to this year that can only be completed through a power and grace that transcend human capacity? What fresh start are we still seeking for 2008 that will elude us apart from Divine intervention? What result will we see achieved in our lives that will cause others to scratch their heads and ask, “How in the world was that possible?” (And prompt us to answer, “Only by the work of His hand.”) How hungry are we to feast on the living Word and be filled with timeless wisdom and fresh purpose? How thirsty are we to drink deeply of the Holy Spirit and be sustained as we run the race set before us? How desperate are we for God, and for what only God in our lives can accomplish?

“For this reason we also, since the day we heard [of your faith], do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.” (Paul, the apostle, writing to the church at Colosse, Colossians 1:9-14)

Heavenly Father, I am desperate for you again; needful of a fresh touch of your grace and love; hungry for the nourishment that feasting on Your Word and in your presence can provide; eager to experience the fullness that is my inheritance in You—and then to share that fullness freely, blessed by You to be a blessing to others. Amen.