Sharing by Jasmine

This is the air I breathe
This is the air I breathe
Your holy presence living in me
This is my daily bread
This is my daily bread
Your very word spoken to me
And I, I’m desperate for You
And I, I’m lost without You

Halfway through my QT, this song popped into my head. We used to sing it quite often during our worship sessions in VJ (we met once a week during our common breaks); I think all of us felt, at that point, the need to consider the role that God played in our lives. Were we desperate enough for God, and for Him to work in us? Or had we allowed too many things - our schoolwork, our relationships and our other commitments - to get between God and ourselves?

In this song, God is described to be the air that we breathe - and we know, of course, that breath is what gives us life. (Say you held your head under water for five minutes, I bet you'd start gasping for air way before the time is up. =]) This is exactly how God is - He is our reason for living, and without Him, we are nothing (in fact, we wouldn't even have existed in the first place!). So, just as we would desperately gasp for air, were we unable to breathe, we should be desperate for God's presence in our lives.

Can we honestly say, however, that we hunger and thirst for God more than anything else? Given our busy schedules, has our thought life become consumed by something else other than God? Deuteronomy 30:20 tells us to "...love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days..."

And indeed, we need to start making room for God in our lives. We need to learn to depend on Him - through prayer, through reading His word - and to be desperate for Him. It is only through this desperation that we can experience the power of God working in us, and, through our desire for his righteousness, become more and more like Him.