While our choices are free and 100% ours, our wills are not. Our wills are tied to our desires.
²And our desires dictate what we ¹choose to pursue.
If we desire the wrong things we pursue the wrong things.
²And our desires are tied to what we value. The more we value something the more we desire it and the harder we pursue it.
²And we value only what we see as valuable.
If we are blind to seeing God's true worth, beauty, wisdom, glory, majesty, and power as our infinity loving Creator - the Source of life, love, and all things - we will never pursue Him as the infinitely valuable and significant being that He is. We will desire and pursue created things and beings instead.
Why? We are like God and created to enjoy that which is most valuable, beautiful, intelligent, glorious, majestic, and loving. Absent a relationship with the Source of life, love, and all things, we go after the next best thing... His creation.
Why does our feeling significant, important, or valuable matter?
Because God is significant, important, or valuable and we are (and must be) like Him so we can appreciate and enjoy these qualities in Him.
We are told in Jas 4:
[5] "...Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”"?
What kind of spirit has God put within us? A spirit that longs (is passionate) for infinite love. Love that can only be satisfied by the Source of love - our Creator.
He will not share in (is jealous over) our pursuit or loyalty to any other "lover" because He knows there are no other lovers who can fill this need and desire.
Not because He needs our love but because we need His. He loves us and desires we experience Him to the maximum of the capacity He created us for as bearers of His image.
Everything we seek for life is temporary and comes up short. GOD alone is the Source of infinite love. To experience His love we must give Him all our loyalty and faithfulness, or we will pursue love outside of Him.
Where does this need/desire for significance (glory) come from? Click here.
Why do we avoid people who want to cling to us or want to cling to the? Click here.
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¹And it is our choose alone. No one else's, including God.
²Note the progression of the "ands" above. Each deals with a significant shift, but also a vital connection to the previous "and" statement. To get to the 2nd "and" you must acknowledge the 1st. And to get to the 3rd we must see the 2nd and so on.
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Why does our feeling significant, important, or valuable matter?
We are like God who is significant, important, or valuable and must be like Him so we can appreciate and enjoy these qualities in Him.
