Our sexuality is all of the ways we strive to reconnect with our world, with each other, and with God. You can’t be connected with God until you’re at peace with who you are.
Lust promises what it can’t deliver.
Lust comes from a deep lack of satisfaction with life. This is why we have to slow down and reflect on our lives before we’ll ever begin to sort out the significance of this. Lust often starts with a thought somewhere in our head or heart: “If I had that/him/her/it, then I’d be …”
This is why gratitude is so central to the life God made us for. Until we can center ourselves on what we do have, on what God has given us, on the life we do get to live, we’ll constantly be looking for another life… trampling on whoever we must to get it. When a human being is mistreated, objectified, or neglected, when they are treated as less than human, these actions are actions against God. And as you ensare another in your lust, you find yourself trapped in the captivity of your own desires.
Often freedom is seen as the ability to do whatever you want. But freedom isn’t being able to have whatever we crave. Sometimes, freedom is going without whatever we crave and being fine with it.
Whatever it is that has its hooks in you, you will never be free from it until you find something you want more. It’s not about getting rid of desire or toning down and repressing your God-given life force. It’s about giving ourselves to bigger and better and more powerful desires. It’s about channeling it and focusing it and turning it loose on something beautiful, something pure and true and good, something that connects you with God, with others, with the world.
How you treat the creation reflects how you feel about the creator.
– Profound Quotes from Rob Bell’s Book
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