My dogs so want to go for a walk but it still hasn't cooled off enough. They pant with anticipation, their restlessness is calling out, yearning to be satisfied. I look at them and try to assure them... if we do not go this evening, we'll go early in the morning.
I look at them and can't help but identify. I mean, we humans are animals too. We want this and we want that. Be it food, alcohol, vanity, sex, thrill, money, control, possessions, acceptance and approval, leisure, companionship, rest on and on. We all want, and in a way that is totally healthy and good, until it is not.
At what point, does it become problematic?
Do we want what we want more than what He wants? I think it safe to say…yes. All of us have desires of the mind, body and heart. At what point does it outweigh His spirit of self control? Are we in control if we are feeding our fleshly desires, when those wants become more important than what He wants for us. After all, His will for our lives should become ours too, right? We should be growing in Him, right?
Personally, I am asking God to help me want Him more than anything this world has to offer. Have I arrived? Heavens sake...NO!!!
However, I realize that the obstacle is merely my hedonistic tendency to satisfy my flesh more than seek to honor Him.
I am not sitting up here in my comfy soap box pointing fingers at my fellow Brothers and Sisters in Christ. I am too aware of my own need for His grace. If it sounds like I am speaking to any of you, specifically, I am not. We all have our own walk with God. Yours is not for me to govern. No thank you. I would be a HORRIBLE choice for such matters. He is the judge, not I.
I am merely trying to stir up encouragement for us all. I do believe the first step is realizing we need His intervention and to believe with Him all things are possible.
It also helps knowing that in order to lay down in green pastures, to be led to still waters, to have our souls restored, our Good Shepherd calls us to NOT want.
I look at them and can't help but identify. I mean, we humans are animals too. We want this and we want that. Be it food, alcohol, vanity, sex, thrill, money, control, possessions, acceptance and approval, leisure, companionship, rest on and on. We all want, and in a way that is totally healthy and good, until it is not.
At what point, does it become problematic?
Do we want what we want more than what He wants? I think it safe to say…yes. All of us have desires of the mind, body and heart. At what point does it outweigh His spirit of self control? Are we in control if we are feeding our fleshly desires, when those wants become more important than what He wants for us. After all, His will for our lives should become ours too, right? We should be growing in Him, right?
Personally, I am asking God to help me want Him more than anything this world has to offer. Have I arrived? Heavens sake...NO!!!
However, I realize that the obstacle is merely my hedonistic tendency to satisfy my flesh more than seek to honor Him.
I am not sitting up here in my comfy soap box pointing fingers at my fellow Brothers and Sisters in Christ. I am too aware of my own need for His grace. If it sounds like I am speaking to any of you, specifically, I am not. We all have our own walk with God. Yours is not for me to govern. No thank you. I would be a HORRIBLE choice for such matters. He is the judge, not I.
I am merely trying to stir up encouragement for us all. I do believe the first step is realizing we need His intervention and to believe with Him all things are possible.
It also helps knowing that in order to lay down in green pastures, to be led to still waters, to have our souls restored, our Good Shepherd calls us to NOT want.
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