DESIRE~

So i read someone's blog, forgot who, but the basic gist of it was about how we have to leave our desires. The guy was saying desires are bad. My response is inspired by the book ‘Desire’, by John Eldridge.
Thing is, I have not found anywhere in the Bible that supports the idea that our desires are wrong. Here are some of the many places where desire is mentioned: Ps 145:15-17 (God grants the Desires of those who look to God) Rom1:24 (Talks of sinful desires) Rom 6:12, Col 3:5 (evil desires) 1 Tim 6:9 (harmful desires) Ps 10:17 (God hears the desires of the afflicted) Ps20:4 (prayer for God to give us our desires) Ps 21:2 (Thanksgiving for having desires granted)

The fact that 'evil' and 'sinful' and 'harmful' is put before the word desire is enough to tell me that there must also be 'holy', 'pure', 'good' desires. We are of course to get rid of evil desires! But we must not squash ALL our desires in the process.

2 Samuel 23:5 "…Will he not bring to fruition my salvation and grant me my every desire?" The fruit of our salvation, what is that? A changed heart is one of them, and a changed heart means changed desires.

Psalm 37:4 "Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart." Again here we see that if we are in Christ, if we delight ourselves in the Lord, then he will give us our hearts Desires. Obviously not the ones we may have which are to commit sins. But rather our true hearts desires: maybe to find love or adventure?

Often as Christians we have many deep desires. An example would be the desire to be loved. Perfect, nothing wrong with that. BUT, what is wrong is how we sometimes try to fulfil those desires. But that does not mean the desire itself is wrong. Far too often we see something that is wrong and react to it by doing the exact opposite. In this case: my desires lead me to sin, so i kill all desire. Not the right response. You will end up dead, indifferent and useless to God.