01-04-08 What God does with our evil desires -- Psalm 103:5
[God] satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. -- Psalm 103:5A little desire snuck into the back of my mind. It was an evil desire, but it tasted good to me. Wanting to be a good Christian, I knew, of course, that I couldn't allow it in my mind. I tried to ignore it and and move on with other thoughts.
But the Lord stopped me. "Why did you desire that?" He asked me.I wanted to squirm out of it. I was talking and praying with my wife, and to really deal with this, I'd have to admit to her what I was thinking. Yuck.
But, as you can guess, I didn't squirm away. I had to lay things out on the table. So Kim and I prayed about this evil desire and explored what was behind it. As we were praying through this, we came across a place in my heart where the enemy had some kind of foothold. We turned that over to the Lord, and, of course, He broke the enemy's power in my life, and that evil desire was replace by the Lord's peace and calm.
There is something driving every evil desire. God knows what that something is. He wants to find it and take care of it, so the enemy cannot make us hungry for things we cannot eat.
This is one big difference between the evil one and God. The enemy gives us evil desires and doesn't care whether they are fulfilled or not. God finds all our desires -- good and evil -- and satisfies them with good.
Be encouraged!
Dwight
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