Consider this trend...
Young guy into porn matures to date real woman, gets married, becomes a workaholic, retires and decides his years of experience have made him superior to everyone arround him.
Sex/wealth/wisdom and I skipped decades of sub-fixations and attractions that would crop up along the way.
You know how a smoker finally quits and half the time develops an eating disorder?
Our hearts are designed to be zeroed in on something,
Contrary to popular opinion, I don't think it's a mental abberation to need to smoke 2 packs a day, eat a couple gallons of ice cream before bed, drink a bottle of vodka til you forget your name, or have sex with a stranger to feel something.
We are designed for obsession, total unhealthy abandon...diving headfirst over heels into whatever gives us pleasure, saves us from our imaginary hell, or quiets the inner demons.
The truth is that anything will consume you if you want it to. You're just going to break yourself into smaller pieces if you try to fix your symptoms without addressing the fact that you love doing what destroys you.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart...
Do you see the yin-yang of that statement? Everything looks good, but it is eternity your heart longs for. You can't keep pouring matter into a black hole and expect to plug it like some sort of cosmic toilet. Only infinity can satisfy the maddening emptiness of eternity.
God has made us with an emptiness, King David compared longing for God like dying in the desert from dehydration...
1 comment:
I agree...We all have a void that only God can fill, I think somewhere deep in the human memory...we recall the garden. Longing to have that relationship with God again...we seek it out in all the wrong places. The offer made to Eve was to be as wise as God. We took the offer and have been proving ourselves fools ever since. Thanks for the thought! G
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