Design of Desire: God’s Engagement with Desire

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

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🗓️ 19 September 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

So far in The Allender Center Podcast’s Design of Desire series, Dan has discussed the war against desire and the idea that God-given desire fosters creativity. On this week’s podcast, Dan continues the series by confronting the idea that not all of our desires are healthy. How does God deal with conflicted desires that are deeply legitimate at times and that, other times, swing into madness?

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.
0:07.8	This week, Dan continues the Design of Desire series by wrestling with the idea that desire is messy,
0:14.1	complex, and scary. Should we then ignore our desire and pretend it doesn't exist, as so many
0:20.4	Christians do? Instead, Dan invites us to bring our desire and pretend it doesn't exist as so many Christians do?
0:21.9	Instead, Dan invites us to bring our desire before God in a way that acknowledges the messiness
0:27.4	and is ultimately rooted in delighting in God.
0:33.8	I had the privilege this week to be the prime babysitter for my granddaughter Elsa.
0:43.3	Her father was out of town. Her mother was beginning her year as a Montessori educator.
0:50.9	And my wife took most of the morning to go play, and I had that privilege of getting Elsa ready for her
1:02.8	first experience of Montessori school, dropped her off, she was there for an hour, picked her up, and then brought her back home. And during
1:14.7	that process, we're still addressing this question of how God deals with desire. Our desires,
1:24.8	are conflicted, convoluted, at times, darkly concatenated desires that are at times
1:35.2	deeply legitimate and other moments swing into madness. There were moments, especially when I would get Elsa back home, be usually around
1:50.5	9.45, and she would like to sit, just sort of play with some of her toys, but around 10 o'clock.
2:04.8	It was sort of time to get active.
2:13.9	And she would at times as well be hungry, and I would, of course, want to provide my granddaughter with her desires. But there were times where there was sort of a set parameter of what could be eaten
2:22.1	and what should not be eaten.
2:24.3	So obviously sugar is not going to happen.
2:28.0	But there was at least one point where Elsa wanted a kind of a lunch plate. And it was 10 in the morning,
2:43.8	and I said no to her. And she, I'll just say, flipped out. is delightful, a wild, sweet, truly a pink princess,
2:56.7	and on the other hand, wild and takes ferocious risks with her body and her life.
3:04.4	But at this point, she was both enraged and tearful and let Papa know that we were not going to be
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