Saturday, February 15, 2014

PLEASURE

The Epicurean philosophers said the chief end of life was pleasure.  Christ-followers don't believe that. Pleasure is a side benefit.  Because if you over-consume, you actually begin to decrease pleasure.  There is a law of diminishing returns, even on pleasure, because you have to keep digging deeper into whatever pleases you in order to receive more pleasure.

'What if it was actually God we craved rather than the things of the world?'

This is what happens when men get into porn.  They have to keep turning up the dials in order to continue receiving pleasure from it.  Appetites grow into cravings and cravings bring death.  Cravings can sabotage your life.  Cravings have an evil progression.  Jesus said they give birth to sin and sin, when full grown, gives birth to death.

What are you hungry for?
Affirmation?
Meaning?
Purpose?
Relationship?

It won't be filled to satisfaction by anything or anyone but the One who said: 'I am the bread of life.  Whoever comes to Me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in Me will never be thirsty.'  (John 6:35)

What if it was actually God we craved rather than the things of the world?  What would our lives look like then?

And be blessed.

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