Good morning all. God is good all the time, all the time God is good. DESIRE - THE DOWN FALL OF MANKIND! But, WE ARE BLESSED TO BE CHILDREN OF GOD!!!
Desire - first, the downfall of man. When GOD created the earth there was beautiful vegetation watered by a mist system from underground. The earth was beautiful, but then out of man came woman = still the earth was beautiful and man and woman were naked and not ashamed.
When Eve went into the Garden of Eden she saw (Genesis 3:6) .....a tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be DESIRED to make one wise..........."
What about the tree? One to be D E S I R E D !! Pleasant to the eyes (i.e. eye candy). Good to feed us. This is when the trouble began. This is where our trouble begins........with DESIRE! Why? We can call it desire, lust, greed, or whatever, but it still boils down to one thing - COVETNESS!
However, DESIRE is not always bad. It created problems for Adam and Eve and the rest of the world but it was pleasing to satan. So, how can desire be not bad, okay, or good. Let's go to Romans 10:1-2 - where Paul is speaking to the people of the time AND to us. "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel (and us-you and me) is, that they (we) might be saved.2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
We must have a ZEAL or DESIRE for GOD! Notice, it says according to knowledge. This means not according to the "LAW", but being the people (person) God wants me to be.
We must remember God's righteousness and how we are righteous in HIS eyes.
So, how does sin come about (as with Eve)? First she saw the tree was good for food/ we see something is good for (and we rationalize) us.
Second, a tree to be desired / we see things we would desire - i.e. a man, woman, car, house, clothes, etc.
Third, she acted on her desires / as we so often act on our desires and what then happens? In debit over our heads, broken homes, charge cards maxed out, or a variety of things.
Then we share desires with spouse or those around us and pull them into the trenches with us. All this leads to is heart break. Yes, we must follow our heart, BUT, our heart must be as in Romans 10 a desire and zeal for God as Paul had.
When we have a desire for GOD in our heart, then the LOVE of CHRIST will show through and our lives will have been changed from eternal death to eternal life. Hallelujah!
So, my friend, what are the DESIRES of your heart - that bigger, newer, nicer ??????? --- OR the DESIRE for JESUS CHRIST? The choice is ours, yours and mine, and when the end comes we only have 1 choice. Thank you for reading. Love you all.
In Christ's Love and Grace
Johnny
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