Evil Desires, Both Small & Big (TMF:1908)

Wednesday, August 03, 2022
Peace to Live By: Evil Desires, Both Small & Big (TMF:1908) - Daniel Litton
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       Desire inside of us, what James is talking about here, isn’t just something that is related to a big thing. Probably more often than not, our desires, our evil desires, can be for small things. We can have a strong craving that people will notice the work we’ve done, and complement us on how great a job we did and how good we are. We can have the wish that we make it to work without missing any traffic lights, and in giving that up, we see that we make most of them. We can have the desire for what we want to do on a date with our significant other, only to find the person doesn’t want to do that, and we feel really down. Nothing is wrong with any of these desires. The issue is that when they cannot easily be let go of, then we know our desire is too strong and is costing us. Then, of course, there is the longing for sin—things that are clearly sin. We all have that problem, because as Jesus said, sin resides in our hearts and it can come out naturally, with little effort on our parts.