We are a fragile species: we have an unceasing need for oxygen; hypothermia can claim our lives in minutes; dehydration makes us crazy before it kills us; prolonged sleep deprivation results in mental instability; food is an almost daily need--at least three times a day if we have our way.
The desperate need we are most likely to ignore is our need to stay connected to God. There are needs that God alone can meet and yet we often look in all the wrong places. We sense the vacuum. We are primitively sent clawing after fulfillment only to be repeatedly disappointed.
Oh, there will come the temporary illusion that we have found a refreshing spring welling up to fill the breach and satisfy. but it will never fill us and we will often find it to be a polluted source--but maybe not soon enough to leave our souls un-poisoned.
Desperation will make the compromises easier. Things we never dreamed we'd do will seem to simply "happen."
And God will seem distant and indifferent and shadowed--like a concept instead of a living Spirit. We'll come to feel ill-equipped and ashamed to turn to him. And Satan will whisper that we've ruined or hearts and destroyed all hope of connecting to God again.
God is more loving, more powerful and more gracious than we can conceive. He stands ready to rescue and reunite with us. When we take one step in his direction, he comes the rest of the way to meet us even when we're at our worst.
Psalm 40:2-3
He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock
and gave me a place to stand.
He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear
and put their trust in the Lord.
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