DAY 28 – THE SECRET OF DESPERATION
Desperation will turn you into a different person. A drowning man has only one thought on his mind and that is how to get air. Nothing else matters to him. The hemmoraging woman of mark 5:25 was willing to press her way through the crowd because the only thing that mattered was touching Jesus. Desperation produces tunnel vision. When God chased away the Syrian away from the city of Samaria, the Israelites in Samaria had become so desperate from hunger during the siege that they trampled to death the officer at the gate in their rush for food. (2king 6-7)
When you are made desperate for God, your pursuit of God takes on a different quality. When it’s personal survival that’s at stake, you begin to seek Jesus in different way. You’re willing to go anywhere or do anything. No price tag is to high. You look at other people and think, “I love you, I respect you, I think you’re a very nice person but if you don’t get out of my way I’m going to run you over because I have got to touch Jesus.
Desperate people don’t struggle with the same distractions and hindrances as the general population. A desperate person would never say “I struggle to find time for the secret place.” Or,”I get easily distracted by everyday demands.” Such petty distractions could never hinder someone who is desperate. The normal hindrances of life don’t even faze a desperate one because of the single-focused intensity of the pursuit.
When we enter a season of distress, our first response is to cry out for relief. However, God does not always bring immediate relief because He destines the distress to produce desperation within us. While none of us asks God for hardship, we can’t deny the fact that hardship produces desperation, which in turn produces intense intimacy. Hardship is not the only way to desperation, God has many ways to answer our prayers but one of the greatest secrets to unlocking the inner life with God is through desperation.
