August 23, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms
• To wish is to be human. Desire can be about anything.
• We can also live in discontent when we only long for our wishes and forget to be thankful for what we have.
• It is easy and dangerous when we believe that we are entitled for what we want & it turns into resentment when not achieved.
• Marketers will speak the language of discontentment and entitlement.
• If I had that, then I will be happy, but the happiness doesn't happen.
• We are not good judges of what makes us happy.
• It isn't wrong to want nice things, but when we think that the temporal things of this world will fulfill us, we enter into folly.
• Once we get our eyes get off of our desires and realize how good God has been to is, we proceed by praising & thanking God.
• Once a person achieves riches & status will find themselves on the other side of the things of this world and will then look for meaning.
• Meaning cannot be easily described because as human souls, we are eternal beings, we can only be satisfied by the eternal.
We won't experience the life level as a ladder of needs but instead we will experience them as fears.
