Someone is Lying to You

Someone Is Lying to You

 

Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away. These desires give birth to sinful actions. And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death.

JAMES 1.14-15

Live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires.

1 PETER 1.14

Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you your heart’s desires.

PSALM 37.4

 

You know what it’s like to really, really want something, right? There’s nothing wrong with wanting, desire is a good thing. We all come equipped with desires we need for life — like the desire for food, relationships with other people, approval, greatness, rest. God gave us these desires for our good, to serve us.

But sin takes healthy desires meant to serve us, and turns them into unhealthy obsessions that make us slaves. Sin twists our healthy desires so they become liars. Our desires, when clouded by sin, lie to us with half-truths, like “It will feel good.” And it might feel good — for a while. But eventually sinful desires turn on us and destroy us. Sin turns our God-given desire for food into the lie that eating more food than we really need will make us happier or that denying ourselves food will make us more acceptable. Sin turns our God-given desire for love into the lie that we have to do whatever someone wants us to do in order to get it. Sin twists our desire for security into an addiction for money and more stuff. Sin takes our healthy desire for success and makes it an obsession with work and competition. Sin twists the truth, and lies outright. So we have to recognise the voice of the liar and confront the lies of sin with the truth of Scripture. And the truth is God wants all our desires to be fulfilled — in him.