In the Bible I find several amazing claims that are completley liberating and fascinating to me:
1. God has made us to be creatures of desire. For all of humanity desires such things as
beauty, greatness, fascination, unconditional love, intimacy, etc.
2. It is wrong to try to suppress or repent of these desires. Instead we need to see that they
are a purposeful and intentional part of who we are, and thus, we should seek to intensify
those desires to the degree that we stop settling for cheap imitations and truly start seeking
after the true source and fountainhead of satsifaction.
3. And God himself proclaims and promises that He is all of that and more. He promises to
reach out his hand and offer us the deepest and most enduring happiness and delight that we
could ever know or experience. Not from God, as if He were a means to pleasure, but in God,
because He is the source and fulfillment of all pleasure*.
So, desire. What are yours, and are they strong enough to forsake and disregard all of the lesser, cheaper imitations of the world in the hope that there is true delight and satisfaction somewhere out there?
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I'm so glad you have this website up and running! it's so user friendly which I enjoy since technology and I don't usually get a long. The main reason why I love it though, is because it means I don't have to memorize every thing Thomas say every week! I can come back and look at the tricky stuff again and again. Also, I've been telling my boyfriend(who does not go to Pepperdine or church on a regular basis) that he HAS to come to Collide. I assure him its not boring or stuffy or judgemental. I know he's happy for me, but he doesn't believe me. Now, I can email the posts and he can see for himself how cool it is.
THanks guys, can't wait til Wednesday
Love Chelsea K
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