Desiring Christ

I haven't written for a while because it's been a busy summer with one thing and another. I have learnt a great deal spiritually from going to the Keswick Convention and also a youth camp that Dan and I helped on. They were both wonderful and I really have been challenged. I haven't had chance to process and think everything through yet because - as is always the case with me - I have come home and the busy-ness of general life has taken over. Why does it always happen like that?

However, on Sunday I was talking to our pastor's wife and she said something that has really made me think, perhaps more than any of the challenges that I've had over the summer, and may also help me to process those challenges. She was talking about a girl who came to know the Lord last week. This girl had tried to become a Christian many times in the midst of many personal problems. Nothing had ever changed for her and she always knew that she still wasn't a Christian. So my pastor's wife asked her what was different this time, and she replied that this time she just desired Christ.

Just desiring Christ - that's what it's all about. I wondered if I had ever just desired Christ. It made me think that perhaps when I go on these conferences and camps I am challenged and as a result I desire many things - to be a better Christian, to know more, to pray harder, to read my Bible more, to develop more of the fruits of the Spirit - all very good desires and I'll keep desiring them! But...where do I desire Christ in all of this? Do I desire him above all these things? And I thought, that if my focus was on him, and I started to desire him more, then all of these things would naturally begin to follow. I don't know what other people think, but it did challenge me. I think that instead of trying to process the masses of information that I've been fed this summer, I need to just spend some time with Jesus, and read about him in the gospels, and get to know him better. It's the only way of becoming more like him. So I've been challenged by a brand new baby Christian who has seen that Jesus is the most precious thing we should desire above all else!