The phrase 'overmastering desire' seems to fit well with my recent thoughts.
When
your desire becomes your master, then you become the slave.
In
the last post, I mentioned how our cravings lead us into common traps. Our lust
for security, stability, control, attention, acceptance, understanding, and
purpose can be overpowering.
Why
would you willingly give up your power and freedom and allow your desires to
control you? Some of us are unable to recognize that our obsessions and
addictions are enslaving us. Yet, I suspect that most of us are able to sense
whether a habit is life-enhancing or life-limiting.
Love
serves. Lust controls. Love leads to growth, a willingness to give of yourself,
commitment and devotion. Lust, on the other hand, is rooted in
self-gratification and thus leads to stagnation and eventual degradation,
discontent, and destruction. If a habit or pursuit causes us to descend rather
than ascend, we might want to reevaluate its worthiness. Lust is just
misdirected love.
"Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love
the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically
everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything
for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It
just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is
on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.” (1 John.
2:15-17 MSG)
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