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Discipleship Focus: Appetite
- Appetite: We all have needs that need to be filled. When we allow ourselves to be filled with the people and things that God brings into our life, we will be satisfied because our In will be in proper focus. But when we try to fill ourselves with our own desires we end up frustrated by an insatiable hunger.
We’ll cut
to the chase today. Solomon has been
dancing around this issue for a few days now, but today he makes it pretty
clear what he is talking about. He is
telling his son that he needs to stay loyal to the woman to whom he’s been
married. Solomon is telling his son that
chasing after women to whom he is not married is just not worth it. Too many bad things happen when we make
sexual decision with our appetite than with our rational thinking brain.
In truth,
I love the way that Solomon says it. “Drink
water from your own cistern.” “Should
your springs be scattered around?” “Why
be intoxicated with a forbidden woman or be embraced in the bosom of an adulteress?”
These phrases all speak about the appetite of a man.
But we
should not be ruled by our appetite. Our
iniquities ensnare us. We are held fast
by the cords of sin that entangle us.
When we obey our appetite, we end up making poor decisions – especially in
the case of our sexual appetite. This is
an area that we really need to be careful.
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