A Desperate Soul

 

    Everyone has had their soul call out in desperation at one point or another.  Anyone that had not met God has a hungry desperate soul, even if they may never admit that fact.  However, just because you become a follower of Christ, it does not mean that you don't have moments of feeling desperate.  

    When life feels too complicated, hard, or overwhelming the soul will cry out to God.  The soul knows God is the creator.  It's voice may be so small that you don't comprehend it, but your soul yearns for God at all times.  We just find substitute or band aids for what our desperate soul needs.  We turn to a career, relationships, money, drugs, tradition, religion, or something else.  

    If we are not willing to go before God naked with our issues, then we will never find that peace that our soul needs.  We all deserve Sheol or another name the Pit.  It doesn't matter if you are "good person".  We have all sinned and the cost of sin is death.  Sin troubles the soul even if we are not aware of it.  The soul is aware of how weak human nature is and how sin causes God's wrath.  It fears God's anger and wants to make it right.  When we refuse, then the soul is in despair.  

    Sin is what keeps us away from God.  It grieves the soul.  The soul just wants that relationship mended as soon as possible, but we are usually stubborn.  We don't like to face the fact that we have to go to God to admit our erroneous ways and then make hard changes in our lives.  

    We don't want to admit that we have parts of our lives that we don't want to let go that keep a wall between us and God.  Once we realize the truth and decide to believe and make the changes that we need, then the desperate soul can rest.  It finds peace even if things in life may appear to be worse.  A soul at peace is priceless.  Don't let darkness be your only friend.

Psalms 88