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The Place of Desire |
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Is desire Holy?
Doesn’t Christianity condemn desire?
In encouraging people to live from desire, aren’t
you encouraging people to do whatever it is that
they want?
Do our deepest yearnings reflect the image of God in
us?
Our problem, as C.S. Lewis said, is not that we
desire too much, but that we desire too little. Our
appetites are not too big; they’re too small. Desire
was given to us as a good and holy gift. Instead of
viewing desire as the God-given path to life with
and for God, many of us have been taught to kill
desire and call that sanctification. These two
chapters (and the more personal Guidebook exercises)
will take you a little deeper into the issue of
Desire.
To introduce you to The Journey of Desire and
to address some of the questions that arise about
desire, we have posted two chapters from John’s book,
Desire. Needless to say, a
fuller response to these questions and others that
arise from this topic can be found by reading the
entire book. Also posted, for the one interested in
going a little deeper into these chapters, are the
corresponding chapters from
The Journey of
Desire Journal & Guidebook, by John Eldredge
with Craig McConnell. |
