WRONG DESIRES PERVERT OUR MORAL JUDGMENTS
By A.W. TozerBlessed are they which do hunger and thirst after
righteousness: for they shall be filled. - - Matthew 5:6Unsanctified desire will stop the growth of any
Christian life and conversely, purified desires will tend
towards righteousness by a kind of gentle moral
gravitation.In the moral world, right desires tend toward life
and evil ones toward death, that in essence is the scriptural
teaching on this subject!Whatever a man wants badly enough and persistently
enough will determine the man's character.Wrong desire perverts the moral judgment so that we
are unable to appraise the desired object at its real value.However we try, still a thing looks morally better
because we want it. For that reason, our heart is often
our worst counselor, for if it is filled with desire it may
give us bad advice, pleading the purity of something
that is in itself anything but pure!When our dominant desires are bad, the whole
life is bad as a consequence. When the desires are good,
the life comes up to the level of our desires, provided
that we have within us the enabling Spirit.At the root of all true spiritual growth is a set of right
and sanctified desires. The whole Bible teaches that we
can have whatever we want badly enough if, it hardly
need be said, our desire is according to the will of God!The desire after God and holiness is back of all real
spirituality, and when that desire becomes dominant in
the life nothing can prevent us from having what we
want. The longing cry of the God-hungry soul can only
be,"Oh, to be like Thee!"--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yours in Christ,
Paul N. F.