Or maybe we don’t desire enough

It is very easy to get into the mode of cutting away. When we talk about balancing our budget, for example, certainly we need to cut back on wasteful spending. But another way to help balance our budget is to actually make more money. Is there a similar economy surrounding desire?

I believe that there is a similar economy. There are many times we are blind to the idea that God desires to give good gifts to his children. If I desire to give my own kids good gifts, then why would we think God has any different desires for us who call him “Father”?

I consider that it may be that it is not that we desire too much, but rather we spend much of our time desiring things that are not good gifts, or gifts that in the scale of eternity are too small.

If you desire a new car, maybe God will bend the laws of nature to get you one. I am not against that. But I feel like getting a new car is too small in light of eternity. Think bigger!

What if a bigger gift from God is to find perfect contentment with the perfectly good car you already own.

The excitement of a new car will fade in weeks, but to be content in all situations is a gift that will give you peace for life. Would you not rather have the latter?

You desire to be in a dating relationship, and that is good. And it may be that God grants you a relationship.

But, if you are anything like me, I desired to be in a relationship not for the sake of loving someone else but as affirmation of myself. That someone bears witness to my life. That someone can love me and know me. That someone else can provide peace to my concerns of whether I am good enough for someone else.

It is a much better gift to understand oneself, to love oneself, to value oneself. God speaks to our soul and gives us the Bible which gives us defining characteristics of who we are in relationship with God. These words are life-giving, encouraging, and fortifying. 

Is that not better for your potential partner?

You want a relationship with others, and it may be that God grants that. But a gift that keeps on giving it fortifying a relationship with God and yourself. You want to make more money, and God may grant that for you. But a gift that blossoms in any situation if the gift of being generous, building up others rather than your own kingdom.

The issue with desire may be less that you are desiring too much but you spend too much time desiring things that are less than the good gifts God wants to build in you.

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