Desires...

What do we desire? 

What do we really want?

I think about this question... and to be completely honest, it makes me a little uncomfortable.  

I mean, if we really think about it, what do we desire?

If someone was to walk up to me on the street and ask me this, what would I say?  I would say, I would desire snow on Christmas, I desire to finish school soon, I desire to be a good person... are those good answers?

Well, I don't think so.  What I am getting at here, is what do we desire, what do we want, and if we call ourselves Christians, is our desire biblical?  Mine, the ones right above this paragraph, are not.  You can change the question, or even ask the question in a different context and get different answers; that is NOT good.  Honestly?  Do we really think that we desire right things, do we really think that we are "good people?"  God is the only one that is good, he is the only one that can do good things, and we are only capable of doing good things with him doing good things through us... what do I desire?  Here is the change, what should I desire?

I should desire Christ.  

That is it.

I should desire Jesus, knowing him, experiencing Him, loving Him.  My heart should be going out for Him and Him alone.  I should love him so much that if someone walked up to me on the street and asked me the questions of what do you desire... I would answer a few things:

I want to be with Christ above all things...

I want to live or die for him, today, now, here...

I want you to know him, before you know anything else, i want you to know him...

Not because i think that I am better for you, but I want you to know him because of the love that he gives me and the love that I give him... I want you to know him so that you will know a love that is better than life...

better than life, better than breath, better than A+, better than Christmas bonus, better than any girlfriend, better than any boyfriend, better than any family, better than any life, because he is better, he is IT, he is the reason I live and breath, He is the reason I answer this question this way, He is the reason that I live my life this way, He is the reason I am, and I need to desire to be like him...

Desire, it should consume me more than anything else, more than my desire for a good life, for the american dream, for being safe, for anything else, it should be Him.  Jesus.  Thats it.  So here is my question...

What do we desire?