Desires from #HiddeninChrist

I am continuing my reading of Hidden in Christ by James Bryan Smith.  He will be at Faith and Life Bookstore in Newton, KS on October 12 from 1-2 p.m. signing Hidden in Christ.

Here are thoughts from his devotion on desires:

Desires expand when we give them a place in our lives that they do not deserve.

Many of our sins are the result of disordered natural desires.

Desire becomes sin when it moves from being something we enjoy to something we seek as our main desire.

But when God is not the center of what we do, then we must fill that void with something, and when we do, we find that the desire is insatiable.

As we express our longing for God, God meets us, and our heart finds what it is looking for. All of our other desires are consequently transformed. They are seen for what they are (things to be enjoyed), not invested in for what they are not (things to find our ultimate meaning in).

Desires are not bad. It is only when we try to fill a void that desires destroy us.

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