Sarah, just wanted to thank you for the post and challenge on evaluating the "desires of our hearts". I especially liked the following quote:
"The absence of any keen desire—merely being lukewarm—causes a terrible flattening (see Rev. 3:15). William R. May explained such sloth: “The soul in this state is beyond mere sadness and melancholy. It has removed itself from the rise and fall of feelings; the very root of its feelings in desire is dead. … To be a man is to desire. The good man desires God and other things in God. The sinful man desires things in the place of God, but he is still recognizably human, inasmuch as he has known desire. The slothful man, however, is a dead man, an arid waste. … His desire itself has dried up” (“A Catalogue of Sins,” as quoted in Christian Century, 24 Apr. 1996, 457).
Read the reference to Rev. 3:15. It clearly tells us how God feels about the lukeward!
Anyway, I hope we all will WORK to achieve the righteous desires of our hearts and not be lukewarm, just floating on the waves wherever they take us.
Love to all, MOM
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Hey mom way to respond! I loved that quote too! He had so many good one liners.
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