God, My Desire

Psalm 73:25–26 “Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.” Desire is not a bad word. Desire is a good word. And the fact that humans desire is not evil in itself. God created us with desire and called it good. Our problem is that after the fall our depraved nature leads us to desire the wrong things; or even to desire the right things for the wrong reasons;...