Desperate Faith!

Luke 8:40-56

I know I say this often about many verses, but these have to some of my favorites.  I love how the woman with the issue of blood became so desperate for Jesus that she made her way through this crowd and made her goal just to touch his hem.  She knew that after everything she had been through, that this would be the answer to her health issues---she knew who her healer was!  Then you have this father who desperately lay at Jesus’ feet pleading for healing of his dying daughter.  This father knew who his daughter’s healer was.  These two people have two things in common---desperation and faith!

I think that is a powerful combination.  I believe these two things are the key to releasing the power of Jesus in our lives.  I can say that I have faith in Jesus and I can know that he is my healer, but it takes that desperation to truly reach the feet of Jesus.  Am I that desperate?  Does it take a trial to make me that desperate?  It seems that I fluctuate with desperation---but it can’t be like that---I have to become desperate for Jesus daily!  I want to become so desperate for Jesus that I feel like I can’t even breathe without him.  There are no limits for Jesus, we are the ones who limit His power in our life when we don’t have that ‘desperate faith’ in Him.  He is God, the creator of the universe and it is He that is in complete control of everything in our lives, big or small---that doesn’t matter to him, what matters to him is us.  He loves us so much, much more than we can comprehend, but we have to know that he cares about the things that we care about and he wants to take care of us---we just have to stop trying to take care of everything ourselves and let him take it.  That is why being desperate for him is so important, when we become desperate for him than that means we are letting go of the control and letting him lead our life.  We will all have times in our lives when we feel like we have nothing to turn to except him, times of desperation, but the key is to not let go of that feeling and become more desperate for him more often!