Desideratum. A word. A noun. A singular meaning, and your best resolution for the New Year. Desideratum comes from Latin and means "greatest desire" and "something that is needed or desired" and "something desired as essential". What is your desideratum for the New Year? What would you like it be?
We know what God's Desideratum is, don't we? In Exodus 25:8, God told Moses, "And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them." It wasn't enough for God to live in Heaven and to communicate to his people through messengers and prophets, so God decided to live among his earthly children. That's God's Desideratum. In fact, the God of the Universe is so desperate and relentless to have a loving relationship with us, that He decided to come and "dwell among us" in human flesh. Emmanuel, "God with Us". God coming to abide with us and to live closer to us than we could ever imagine. God's Desideratum, His greatest desire.
God's greatest desire has always been to live closer to his earthly children. The earthly Jewish Sanctuary and the Incarnation of Christ (from the Latin "In and Carnis" meaning "In-fleshment" or "in the flesh"), proclaim to us boldly today that we are one of God's earthly children, and that He desires to live closer to us in the New Year. That has been and is God's Desideratum, His greatest desire.
What about our desideratum? What is our greatest desire for the New Year? If 2 Corinthians 5:14, "For the love of Christ compels us," and Romans 2:4, "the goodness of God leads you to repentance," are true, then why not choose to correspond God's Desideratum with our very own: To Love the God that already Loves us and has Chosen us in His Dear Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us send the love that God has so generously lavished on us back to Him in 2015. After all, that is all we can do, because "we love Him, because He first loved us." As we get to know God more each day in 2015, we will love the people in our families, neighborhoods, jobs, and churches more than ever before. As we seek and pray for a tsunami of love to this world in 2015 brought about by the Holy Spirit working in and through us, God will bring about a marvelous change in our lives.
This New Year, let's resolve to have just one Resolution. Let's resolve to make our desideratum, "our heart's greatest desire", to love God more each day of the New Year. If we do, then 2015 may in fact be the best year of our life."
~ Pastor Sal Garcia
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