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When I desire in the wrong way, I fail to love things for their own sake. I fail to love them for what they actually are. I want them only as a means to satisfying my own hungers and solving my own problems.
Desire, like the law, must die to me as life’s master so that it can live in me as love’s servant.
In Christ, I can both feel desire and be at peace. I can be alive and enter the rest of the Lord. I can live both the present and the future.
Notice this about time. My obsession with myself is largely an obsession with my future.
The only way to save myself from the future’s tyranny is to willingly sacrifice that future on God’s altar. I have to give the future away. I have to let it go. I have to stop trusting in it or hoping for it. I have to hand it over to Christ. I have to consecrate the whole of it.
And if trusting Christ means anything, it means trusting him with my future so that I can share his resurrected life in the present.
As a matter of course, I want things because I want something from them. I want peace. I want happiness. I want love. But only Christ can offer these things. And Christ does not offer them in the way I expect. He doesn’t offer them as a result, he offers them as a manner.
You don’t have to live a life of quiet desperation.
