The Name

So you are all probably wondering why exactly the name of my blog is the desperate flame.. and to be honest it actually sounds a bit flamboyant. Well it comes from the Phil Wickham song "Desire". In the song, one of the lyrics reads "Jesus if your loves the fuel, than I'm the desperate flame". And that is exactly what I want to happen with my walk. I want it to catch fire. Desire.. it's a funny word. We desire so much. We desire people, places and things, but do we ever really desire God. I believe that we will desire Jesus when it is convenient for us. We desire Him when we want something. Sure, God wants us to come to Him in our most troubled times but he also wants us to come to Him in our happiest times, in our "good" times. We keep God from areas in our lives. We lack that complete Trust in Him in everything we do because we think that we can handle it. God wants to be in every aspect of our lives, He doesn't want to be a fraction. "Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made." John 1:3. If God has created everything that is a part of you then why wouldn't you share it with Him? Why wouldn't you dwell in something that God has made good?

It comes down to the simple fact that we are all selfish beings. It all happened way back when, when Eve decided to be selfish and take a bite of that apple. She had options, she could have had God in every aspect in her life but instead wanted to be selfish and keep something to herself. So naturally we as human beings take on this selfish nature.. it is a nature of sin. The devil wants us to see ourselves as independent. Our society praises and preaches to be independent. But what God really wants is us to be dependent... not in worldly things like Eve once did but on Him. Be dependent on Him, He is the only constant that really exist. This is the desire that I want... I want to desire my God in every aspect of life.