Facing the Fact
“You have not glorified the God who holds your life-breath in His hand and who controls the whole course of your life.” Daniel 5:23.
Most Christians do not pant after God in the way the psalmist described in Psalm 42:1.
Now I must attempt to make clear what I mean.
First, let me pull into focus the major problem with which we all struggle as soon as we are born.
When God created us in the beginning-He designed us to have a relationship with Him.
This means that deep within our being is a thirst for God which will not go away.
It can be ignored, disguised, misunderstood, wrongly labeled, or submerged underneath a wealth of activity, but it will not disappear. And for good reason.
We were designed to enjoy something better than this world can give us, particularly in the sphere of relationships.
No human relationship can satisfy in the way that a relationship with God does.
This deep thirst for God that resides within us makes us dependent on God for satisfaction– and that is something our sinful human nature deeply resents.
Due to Adam and Eve’s sin in the garden of Eden, we have all been left a legacy called “Do It Yourself.”
There is something within every single one of us that wants to take charge and have a hand in bringing about our own salvation.
So here is the problem:
Facing the fact realistically that we inwardly thirst after God puts us in touch with a level of helplessness from which our sinful human nature shrinks.
It reinforces the conviction that we are dependent on someone outside of ourselves for satisfaction. And that is something we don’t care to acknowledge.
“Father, I recognize this elemental drive in my nature which causes me to resist standing in utter helplessness before You. But I sense that there can be no breakthrough in my life until I face this issue and deal with it. Help me, Father. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.”
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