Desperate Faith

The faith for desperate days.", is the first sentence from the March 25 devotion in the beloved classic "Streams In The Desert". My parents gave me my first copy of this book after becoming a Christian many years ago.The readings have encouraged and refreshed me through many days and seasons of desperate faith, and during times of battle with the world and her enemy.


The message in this reading simply says that desperate days been recorded in the annals of time as pathways to light. If we study the Bible and the lives of all great patriarch's we see victory over these trying times; often the deliverance came "at wits end".


When we submit in desperate faith, and quit trying to figure it out, God moves in his mysterious ways and delivers. How true.The devotion continues to remind the reader that faith does not make our desperate days; it's work is to sustain and solve. My response is to continue to moment by moment increase my faith.

As we approach our Easter season- remember Gethsemane and the desperate faith of Christ as he cried out to God the Father. Ponder this deeply. We must remember our pilgrimage journey will always require divine eternal faith that is sustained only by God, because of the desperate submission of Christ to the cross. His blood, his faith covers all who believe - have faith.


Jesus said in this world we will have trials and tribulations, but he came to overcome these for us. He is the pathway to life and lights the way in the darkness.


Lyrics from an old hymn describes the necessity of desperate faith to teach us to trust God.


"When obstacles and trials seem
 Like prison walls to be,
 I do the little I can do
And leave the rest to Thee.


And when there seems no chance,
   no change, from grief
   can set me free,
Hope finds it's strength in helplessness,
   And calmly waits for Thee.