My One Desire

I have my weekend alarm set to go off at 8:27 a.m - 3 hours later than my weekday alarm. This morning, when Misty Edwards first sang "All consuming fire / You're my one desire-" I quickly hit the snooze button saying angrily in my head "No you're not! My one desire is to sleep!"

And with that statement, it was as if I had slapped the face of Jesus-hard.

I finally got to church (30 minutes late!) and took these sermon notes:
VC Sermon Notes - 4/14/13
Confessions

Deuteronomy 7:17-21
“If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them? ’ you shall not be afraid of them but you shall remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt, the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the Lord your God brought you out. So will the Lord your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid. Moreover, the Lord your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed. You shall not be in dread of them, for the Lord your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.

My giants in the land:
Idolatry - wanting to feel better
(Ice cream, laziness)
Not trusting God
Ingratitude
Forgiveness
Fear

Just like The Lord helped His children remove the giants from their land "little by little", He will never forsake me in this life process of sanctification.

Deuteronomy 7:21-22
You shall not be in dread of them, for the Lord your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God. The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.

I promise I was listening to the sermon while I read on ahead and discovered how Abba would get me through this 'terrible two' quality in my heart:

Deuteronomy 8:2-3
And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

Praying that I will hunger and thirst for righteousness, manna and living water - and that my one desire would be to press in closer to the One who saved me because of His beautiful gift of grace.