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E V E R Y D A Y L I G H T
Daily readings to help you see Jesus' light in your life
by Selwyn Hughes
"Desperate Men"
"I spread out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a
parched land." (v.6)
-- For reading & meditation: Psalm 143:1-12
We continue looking at the characteristic of spiritual desperation
which, we have been saying, usually makes its presence known in all
"revival praying". I believe it was Karl Barth who once said: "We do
not read our Bibles aright until we read them like desperate men."He
meant, I think, that until we become spiritually desperate ourselves
we will not be able to recognise the desperation that flowed in the
hearts of the men and women who are portrayed in the Scriptures. I
wonder, as you read the psalm that is before us today did you feel
the desperation that is present in the heart of the psalmist?
Commenting on this psalm, C.
S. Lewis said: "The first eleven verses were written in a strain that
brings tears to the eyes. He is obviously a desperate man." Of
course, the psalmist here is praying for personal revival and not
national revival, but the principle to get hold of is this: desperate
praying brings powerful and positive results. Permit me once again to
ask you a personal question: Have you ever felt desperate enough
about the moral and spiritual conditions around you to spend a few
days praying and fasting? Most people's response to the idea of
fasting is: "Well, things are not desperate enough to demand that!"
There's an old saying that goes: "Desperate situations demand
desperate measures". I don�t know how you view the world situation,
but it seems obvious to me that things are in a desperate state. And
they will only change as the desperation in the world is met and
countered by a holy desperation in the hearts of the men and women
who constitute the Christian Church.
PRAYER:
O Father, use the facts that I have read today to drive me to Your
feet in a spirit of holy desperation. I cannot escape them - nor do I
want to. Make me desperate - desperate enough to be a "fool for
Christ" if that is necessary. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
FURTHER STUDY:
Isa. 55:-7; Matt. 5:6; Psa. 42:1-2; 63:1
1. What is promised to those who thirst?
2. How did David depict his longing for God?
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