The evil in our desires often lies not in what we want but in the fact that we want it too much. Natural affections (for any good thing) become inordinate, ruling cravings. We are meant to be ruled by godly passions and desires. Natural desires for good things are meant to exist subordinate to our desire to please the Giver of gifts. Grasping that the evil lies in the ruling status of the desire, not the object, is frequently a turning point in self-understanding, in seeing the need for Christ’s mercies, and in changing.
David Powlison

“The Ever”

I didn’t know these things that I could do
I didn’t know how much I could lose
Why did I forget so easily
Why couldn’t I see I had everything

But you saw more
You saw my deepest part
With the light of a thousand stars
You saw them, awake in me
And through your eyes
You showed me everything
You woke me up inside
Brought back to life
I lost myself
But now I breathe again

Like a poet without pain
Like a beauty without rage
Like an innocence without a life to save
Like a hope without a slave
Like your eyes without a face
Like an instinct with no other life to take

It’s beauty and rage
It’s beauty and rage
It’s beauty and rage
It’s beauty and rage
It’s beauty and rage

But you saw more
You saw my deepest part
With the light of a thousand stars
You saw them, awake in me
And through your eyes
You showed me everything
You woke me up inside
I’m back to life, I lost myself
But now I breathe again

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“The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being” (Genesis 2:7). The supreme Creator of heaven and earth did two things in creating man. First, He formed him from the very dust of the ground, and, second, He breathed His own breath into the nostrils of Adam. This distinguished man from all of God’s other creatures.