"Desires towards God" - C H Spurgeon

“There is a measure of believing in every true desire after believing. If you say, “I desire to trust Christ,” why, soul, you trust Him already in some degree, since you believe that He is the kind of Person whom it would be right to trust!... Your desire to cast yourself wholly upon Christ has in it the beginning of saving faith! And you have love, too. I am sure of it! Did ever a man desire to love that which he did not love already? You have already some affection toward the Lord Jesus, some drawings of your heart Christwards, or else you would not sigh and cry to be more filled with it. He who loves most is the very man who most passionately desires to love more. Love and desire keep pace in Christians so that the more love, the more desire to love; and so I gather that this desire of yours to love Jesus is a sure evidence that you love Him already! Your desire is the smoke which proves that there is fire in your soul. A living flame lingers among the embers and, with a little fanning, it will reveal itself! Your desire to serve God is obedience! Your desire to pray is prayer! Your desire to praise is praise! I am sure, also, that you have some hope, for a man does not continue to groan out before his God and to make his desire known unless he has some hope that his desire will be satisfied and that his grief will be relieved. David lets out the secret of his own hope, for he says in the 15th verse, “In You, O Lord, do I hope.” You, my downcast brother, do not hope anywhere else, do you? You know that every other door is shut; every other road is blocked up except that which leads from your soul to God. I know you have some hope and, therefore, if you have no hope anywhere else I am persuaded that you have a hope in God!”

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Desires towards God: a sermon for the weak

http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols25-27/chs1564.pdf