I've done a terrible thing. I admit it. I've read my Bible for years now, and somehow have failed to acknowledge the emotions of the speakers. Today as I read, with testimonies of what God is doing around the world floating around in my head, with an urgency to share the Gospel and fulfill God's will for me rising in my chest, with an awareness of how short the time really is before Jesus comes back - I was undone, confronted with the emotion-packed aggression and power of the Gospel in a way I'm not sure I've ever been before. Jesus says in John 6:39 in the New Century Version, "Here is what the One who sent me wants me to do: I MUST NOT lose even one whom God gave me, but I must raise them all on the last day." The Lily and Kleist translation says, "I must not lose anything of what the Father has entrusted to me ..." Can you sense His desperation? Can you hear the determination, the fire, the zeal? Let me paint the picture for you.
Pressing in, not turning back, growing in faith, not growing slack, ... daring to be restless with anything less than God's best.