Unhealthy Wants

You know, you can find messages about God in so many rather unlikely places. Take song lyrics for example, I listened to one this morning after reading a lesson in our current Bible Study, Encounters of the Spirit. This song, “Sin For a Sin” by country music singer Miranda Lambert, had a line that just captured my attention.  Initially, the song is about a cheatin’ man, but then this line just jumped out at me:

“Bad things come with consequence
What feels good, hurts in the end
Don’t want to think about that now”

This is EXACTLY what I read this morning! In 1 Corinthians 2:13-16, Carolyn Moore, the author, asks us to consider if all our wanting is for something Earth doesn’t have? She goes on to wonder “what if our addictions and our debt and our serial relationships are all about this yearning for God even when we don’t realize that’s what we’re after? What if the answer to our brokenness is God’s holiness?” Moore posits that we are not merely after a mental idea of God, but a relationship. She likens it to homesickness, explaining that we were made for something we are trying to get back to.  Ephesians 4:19 says, “Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.”

I am getting a lot out of this book, but this particular message resonated with me. It was like a big aha moment.

Just for fun, you might like to listen to Miranda Lambert’s song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlvUmYGLdgM

Some additional lyrics from this song read:
Bible told me to forget
All those who trespass against  
 
Fire and brimstone
Dirt and a headstone
Bury them, baby
Along with your sins
Hear the thunder
Six feet under
Hit your knees
Wont do it again