Desperate me? No way!! We like to think that none of us are desperate for anything. Desperate is the overwhelming state of urgency at the point of losing hope. Truth is that is exactly where we are - the point of losing hope! Without hope we are desperate.
We live in a culture where Desperate Housewives is a popular TV show among our children, gangs are on the rise and violence is everywhere. Are we desperate? YES and YES and again. But, do we truly know what it is that we are desperate for? Sad to say, many of us are searching for the missing pieces of life and trying to fill it in all the wrong ways. We are functioning in a desperate state all the while missing the real answer for our life. Have you ever sat down to do a puzzle hoping to relax and get to see the puzzle complete, only to find their are missing pieces? The missing pieces are frustrating. Now, compare that to your life. So, we live in a desperate search to find the missing piece, but what is the missing piece?
The missing piece we so desperately search for is LOVE. There are many others, but this one is the key to them all. We are created to love and to be loved and when any part of that is lacking or completely missing we are desperate for that love. We can search the whole world over trying to find it and fill the empty pieces of our life with many things. Mostly, we humans look for love in all the wrong places.
Where do we start to find the love that we are missing? We start with God our Creator. God is love and in Him He can complete every area of our life. He can fill in the missing pieces. God loved us so much that he saw our desperation and sent His son, Jesus to the rescue. That is a tremendous love that we need to wrap our brain around. He loved, He cared, He acted, He saved by sending a heroic Jesus to be our sacrifice. He saw our desperation! However, we have to receive that great love and grasp hold to it. The love of God is the missing piece to the puzzle called life! Stop the search and accept the LOVE. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the son of God, God lives in him, and he is in God. And so we know and rely on the love that God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in Him. 1 John 4: 15-16.
So, think on the desperation of love we so need in our culture, or how about in your life personally? Take into consideration the missing piece of what we all need and that is love.
I will be writing more on this subject in the days to come. I would love to hear your comments.
Sweet blessings to you all,
Lesia
