Urgency

"You're the hope of a new sunrise breaking over a desperate life.."-Sanctus Real

Urgency. Desparation. Passion. Where has it gone?

Why do we live our lives day to day as if we have forever...

To live the life of our wildest dreams. 
To live a life with fire in our core.
To love God and His children with reckless abandon.
To surrender every wicked dark thing we hold onto with cold hearts.
To let forgiveness flow from our lips for the ones who have wounded us.
To give everything we have and expect nothing in return
To chase after God with so much passion and fire that we can barely stop ourselves from running over the edge of the Earth for His name.

Yesterday, I could see the scenes of my life flashing before my eyes.

Not because I was crossing through the tunnel between life and death, but because of a situation I came into contact with.  There is someone who I have known my entire life who is sick.  So sick people are fearing she could die due to the complications occurring inside of her body at this very moment.  Driving over to her house yesterday, I began to pray with desparation in my heart that God would work a miracle inside of her.  To heal her medical condition and above all, provide her with a clean escape from the life of addiction and heartache she had crashed into because of a string of bad choices.

Leaving, I closed the door behind me and walked to my car, praying more for her.  Praying hard for her life.

In all honesty, I hadn't prayed passionately and without abandon many times in my life...and that's when I began to question myself. 

How could I be living, praying, and LOVING without a spirit of urgency, desparation and passion?  My days here are no more guaranteed than any other person on this Earth and yet I continue to live in a comfortable state as if my time here will never end and I'll have plenty of time to start living the life I truly desire to lead.

In the song, "Always", Switchfoot sings, "Every breath is a second chance."

Hear that?!

Every breath we breathe we make a CHOICE. 

A choice to Love recklessly with joy in our hearts, a choice to Worship freely and lift our hands to the God who has given us life, a choice to Glorify and Honor the God where grace and mercy freely pours into the darkest crevices of our hearts.  He has given us one chance to get this life right. Not two, five or ten...but ONE.  It is up to you how much of it will turn out.

Lord, place in my spirit an unquentiable desire to know You more. 
Push me to love deeper,
to speak every word with grace,
to forgive every hurtful thing that chips away at my pride,
to send my love to those who are broken and crying out to You on their knees,
to train my eyes to seek only after You.
Let the story of my life sing to You with a cry of urgency, desparation and passion to be a light for Your great cause in this world,
Amen.

"You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart..." -Jeremiah 29:13
If I choose to, I know I will never regret a life chasing after His heart and neither will you.

"So come with me I’ll show you life even better than this.  Come with me  I’ll show you love you didn’t know could exist."