While listening to a sermon by Josh Harris this morning I heard him say:
“The gospel does not create a desperation that leaves us hopeless, but a desperation that drives us to salvation in Jesus.”
This caused me to think about the desperation that most people live in who have not yet embraced the gospel. Henry David Thoreau said it well with this statement-
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
How sad; but how true this is. Most people that you and I rub shoulders with, go to school with, work side-by-side with will never realize the true song of their life- for all mankind is created for the purpose of bringing glory to His Maker. That is the joyful song of our life. But so many spend their days stripped of that music and instead quietly pre-occupied with the white noise of life. This is desperation- the sort that leaves us hopeless.
But what if we shared with others that the desperation they feel is a result of their alienation from God? What if our unbelieving friends could recognize this desperation, but then be driven to the remedy which is Jesus? That is the purpose of the gospel.
Yes, we are desperate. But we don’t have to remain in quiet desperation. Instead, let us sing the song of the redeemed! And may we share that song with those who are without music.
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