The Ire of Desire

I have been reluctant to discuss this. Cheryl Craig brought up that some of her reading group say that we should have no desire. Yes, I addressed this not long ago. I was intentionally shallow. Because I did not and do not want to offend. But Biblically the symbolic focus of desire and the cause of man's trouble is the female aspect. You can see why this might irk some people.

Obviously, and with good reason, woman is man's desire. As I read the Bible, though, women are not women. Adam was male and female. A family. "Multiply and increase, and fill the earth and its environments" (Genesis 1:28). Fill the earth with families. Eve, the mother of all who would live, was and is the male and female Adam's desire for expansion. Their "wife" was their desire's manifestation. THIS is where the trouble begins. In their ignorance (Satan), they forgot to put God's purposes first. This is about ITS becoming, not ours.

Their becoming they pursued. Which irked God and caused Its indignation, because pursuing our desires and becoming above God's was not and is not right. God is big on right, proper, and appropriate, because It is right, and this is ITS manifestation. We are just a subset of It. As sent, it is appropriate for us to be in meekness, humility, patience, and full resignation to the Spirit of God. THAT's what we repent to when we repent.

The Bible is the greatest book on prayer, and the purpose of prayer is not just to get whatsoever we desire. Our desires are still distracting. Fame, fortune, and family certainly look fabulous, but their fantastic-ness is illusion. God must be first in our pursuit. It is ever "seek ye first the Kingdom of God and Its rightness, and all these things shall be granted to you" (Matthew 6:33). Otherwise God withdraws behind our desires, and we are left with the misery we create (for creation has been turned over to us, but not for ourselves) -- no matter how fantastic it might temporarily appear.

If God is indeed Impassioned, Flaming Love, It is outward. If we are It, we are to love It like It does, outward, loving Its expansion, not our own. So love your neighbor as you would love yourself, and be expanded.