APPETITE

We're people driven by our appetites as well as by our belief that our actions will make us happy.  You do what you do because you think in doing it you're going to be satisfied ... fulfilled ... it will bring you joy.

Everything you do is driven by your instinctual desire for happiness and pleasure.  You do nothing that isn't driven by that.

The Bible drives counter to that.  It speaks of a celebration of Jesus being better than everything else.

Psalm 4:7, for example: 'You have put more joy in my heart than they have when grain and new wine abound.'

In other words, "Let others have what they want.  Let them pursue all the world has to offer.  I've tasted some of that and what I can say is, 'God, You're still better.'"  

There's more joy to be had in You, God, than in any of those.

I'm not saying you can't experience pleasure in anything other than God.  Of course you can - and you do.  But I'm saying you won't experience the fullness of joy possible for human beings outside of a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Do you have an appetite for that?

And be blessed.