"Who satisfies your desires with
good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's"
Psalm 103:5
Photo source by me (Krystal H.
Cartwright) Taken in Nassau, Bahamas (Eastern part of the island)
In today's world
there is so much focus on desire, money, power, lust, sex, pleasure
and gratification. Married couples fall off the foundation of "keeping the
marriage bed holy Heb 13:4" and into the "excitement and
thrill" of affairs. Young people subject their bodies to sexual lusts that
leave them unsatisfied. People use mind alternating drugs, which leave them
miserable after the high has faded. We have all put ourselves in jeopardy in
some way or another in pursuit of unbridled happiness. Drinking the night away,
waking up saying "Oh I'll never drink again", sleeping with people
who don't treat us right just for the physical pleasure or just simply for
the fleeting comfort. We search and search, we give
ourselves away to our lusts, leaving a piece
of ourselves in each unfulfilling pleasure. The
only true pleasure, the only true love, the only real satisfaction and
contentment you will ever experience is in God and God alone - not
in a career, another person, money or material
things. "You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there
is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore" Psalm16:11.
It is only in our Creator we have that peace of being enough just the way we
are. Come to Him and open your heart up to
that exhilarating truth and love that only He can give unconditionally. "Take
delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart" Psalm
37:4. God knows the desires in your heart, come to Him, learn of Him, in His
word and your heart will be restored and grateful. "But
whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The
water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to
eternal life." John 4:14 You
were not made to live apart from God, you were made to be loved and it is God's
love that will sustain you, cleanse you, release you from the world's harshness
and bondage. Spend time in His Word, make an effort to pray every day and see
for yourself how those pleasures of the world that seemed so important and
vital before, can never compare to what you will find in Him. "Casting the
whole of your care -- all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns,
once and for all -- on Him; for He cares for you affectionately, and cares about you
watchfully" 1 Peter
5:7. Spiritual freedom, supernatural provision, freedom from anxiety and worry,
powerful protection, contentment and rest in knowing you are completely loved.
-Krystal H.
Cartwright
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chosen)
