Desperately

Here is our song of the week! I found this on a christian magazine and was very much blessed by this and I hope that you will be too.

Desperately

By Joy Chastagner and Elton Smith

(Verse 1)

I am failed and imperfect

But when I am touched

By your grace I'm refreshed and revived.

And Your strength and Your comfort

Soon help me to see

That in You I am truly alive.

(Chorus 1)

I am desperately trying to see

All the things that you want me to be.

I am awed by Your presence,

Please hold my hand.

Give me wisdom so I'll understand.

(Verse 2)

Though my heart longs to please You

My pride is so strong,

And I constantly battle with sin.

Oh please help me be humble

And follow along.

May the truth of Your Way slowly win.

(Chorus 2)

I am desperately hoping to find

That Your love is transforming my mind

And the pride that I harbor will fade away.

Oh please dwell in my heart Lord, I pray.

(Verse 3)

In the ocean of blessings You freely provide

I can feel that You're there by my side.

I'm amazed that You love me

Though sometimes I fall.

My Redeemer, I give You my all.

(Chorus 3)

I am desperately seeking Your face,

And I ponder the depths of Your grace,

As the pain and the heartache I have inside

Are washed away with the tide,

Are washed away with the tide.

For God and God alone

As I was reading about British history, I came across a quote from British historian Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher. He said, “Men wiser and more learned than I have discovered in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave . . . nothing but the play of the contingent and the unforeseeable.”



I was humbled that a great man of history acknowledged that there are things that he does not understand. And that is a testament on how great our God is. It made me reflect on a verse in Colossians. It says that Colossians 1:16 that,

“All things were created through Him and for Him.”

In this verse, a christian magazine suggested to take note of the last two words at the end it says there – “for Him.” These are two words that are very important if you want to understand what God is. All things that is, that was and that will ever be is all dedicated to Him.

The Bible tells us that every knee shall bow and every tongue will confess the lordship of Jesus Christ. A great thought that a friend of mine share with me is that while Christ showed His love by dying for us, in turn, we show our love by living for Him.

Finding contentment

Will i am inspired me with his rendition of the Barrack Obama speech Yes We Can. The speech moved the nation with a promise to be great again. However, in my daily reflection God impressed upon me that the problem that most of us face is not that fact that we cannot have what we NEED. Rather, the problem stems from the fact that we cannot afford the things that we WANT.

Most of the text that I've read about being content quotes 1 Timothy 6:10. It says there that,



"For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains."

For some strange reason, this verse is the most quoted yet misunderstood. It does not say that money is bad nor that it say that you should not desire to have money. What it says is that you can find contentment not in great wealth but in few wants.

1 Timothy 6:6-9 says,

But if we have food and shelter, we will be satisfied with that. Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

In verse 11 it continues,

But you, as a person dedicated to God, keep away from all that. Instead pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.

A christian magazine suggested that the next time we ask for God's abundant blessings in our lives, why don't we ask for contentment instead? Can we do that? As will i am would say, Yes we can. By God's grace we can.