Bob Hamp

If only we could see accurately, how different everything could be.  We are hungry.  Hungry to feel alive.  Hungry to be ourselves.  So many of the things men and women struggle with, you know, bad stuff we do, things we later loathe ourselves for, are actually our unnatural response to our natural make-up.

Our appetite for intimacy can become unhealthy dependency.  Our appetite for adventure can become a drive for self destruction.  The hunger to feel like a man, or a woman, fully alive sends us down a path of sexual misadventure.  Intimacy, adventure, and manhood are not the problems.  It is how we have come to believe these appetites will be satisfied.  

I love what John Eldredge tells us in his book, “Journey of Desire”, that the “Christian” response to desire has either been a series of ultimately failed attempts to suppress our desires, or the ongoing misdirection of human appetite.  Somehow we have ended up ashamed of the appetites themselves.  What if our deepest drives tell us something deeply true and good about us?  What if the seemingly unquenchable longings in our soul actually tell us something about our true depth instead of somehow indicating we are broken?  

Adjust the dial, ask your Father, your Creator what is this appetite, that drive intended for?  God did not create you to be someone else!! That would make no sense.  God made you to be FULLY and COMPLETELY who He made you to be.  Fully Alive.  Fully Desiring.  Fully Reaching for all He put in your path.  You are created in the image of the God of All Creation.  Let Him show you how you are designed.  The design is not flawed, it is the operation.