“In silent search of other lovers” by Maurice Roberts
“Ecstasy and delight are essential to the believer’s soul and they promote sanctification.
We were not meant to live without spiritual exhilaration and the Christian who goes long without the experience of heartwarming will find himself tempted before long to have his emotions satisfied from earthly things and not, as he ought, from the Spirit of God.
The soul is so constituted that it craves fulfillment from things outside itself and will embrace earthly joys for satisfaction when it cannot reach spiritual ones.
Not for nothing did Satan draw Eve to see that the forbidden fruit grew on a tree which was ‘pleasant to the eyes’ and on a ‘tree to be desired’.
The believer is in spiritual danger if he allows himself to go for any length of time without tasting the love of Christ and savoring the felt comforts of a Savior’s presence.
When Christ ceases to fill the heart with satisfaction, the soul of man will go in silent search of other lovers.”
–Maurice Roberts, “Christ- The Lover of Our Souls.” The Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 323-324, August/September 1990: 1.
