How desperate are you?

Today’s blog post is contributed by David Trotta:

They couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. Then they lowered the man on his mat, right down in front of Jesus. (Mark 2:4)

Back a number of months ago a story was in the news about a failed robbery attempt where some thieves cut a hole in the roof of a coin shop with the hopes of lowering themselves inside and making off with all the loot.

The only problem…they misjudged the location of the coin shop and instead cut through the roof of the restaurant next door.

The thieves were obviously pretty desperate to get their hands on all that gold and silver.  If only they had altered their plans a little to the left.

As we talked about last week, the friends of the paraplegic in the above verse were pretty desperate to get their friend in front of Jesus.  So desperate that they too climbed onto the roof and dug a hole to get inside, only not for gold and silver, but to steal some time with Jesus.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.  The paraplegic and his friends knew that all too well.  They may not have another opportunity.

How desperate are you to get in front of Jesus?  Is there something standing between you and Him that needs to be removed?  Does the roof of your religious house need to be ripped off?

And if you feel like you don’t have the strength, enlist the help of a couple friends who are Christ followers to help you remove those barriers standing between you and Jesus.

We need to get our hearts squarely in front of Jesus with nothing in between.  What measures are you willing to go through to position ourselves to receive that breakthrough from Jesus?

Are you willing to drop something from your busy schedule?  Are you willing to turn off the TV?

Whatever it may be, don’t put it off any longer.  Get up on the roof and start ripping.