When I young, a long time ago ,we used to buy a comic for children,and one of the characters in the comic was called Desperate Dan,a big brute of man, it was harmless, but I don't know why they called him Desperate. That was his name,Desperate,what does the word mean?,it is an adjective,meaning a sense of hopelessness,that one is in a situation that is bad, that is impossible to deal with. I quote what follows from an article ,by a minister Roderick Strange,he was writing about a person called Bartimaeus who was blind,and he was a beggar,we read about him in the Gospel of Mark, chapter 10 v 46 ff .He lived in Jericho,he heard that Jesus was passing, Jesus the healer,the teacher,the Son of David,here was an answer to his prayers,so he cried out, 'Jesus, Son of David ,have mercy on me'.The crowds were not interested in a beggar ,and so told him to be quite,but he would not shut up,he kept calling out all the more,you see he was desperate,this was not a game of trivial pursuit .Roderick writes the following,'There is a moving line in the prophecy of Jeremiah, it reads''If you seek Me with all your heart, I will let you find Me'. The search with all the heart does not refer to effort, but rather to deep longing. The prophet is not saying'' Providing you work hard enough, you will succeed'', offering a reward in proportion to effort,.but rather,when your longing is deep- seated ,you will discover what you desire. Yet the discovery will come as a gift;''I will let you find Me''. Just in closing ,Jesus did heal him.
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