Design of Desire: The Delight of Desire

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

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

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🗓️ 27 September 2015

⏱️ 22 minutes

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This week on The Allender Center Podcast, Dan concludes our Design of Desire series by looking at the relationship between the desires of our hearts and our ability to delight in God. That can be an uncomfortable connection to make, since many of us are all too aware that the things we desire sometimes seem to be very far from the heart of God.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.0	This week, Dan concludes our Design of Desire series by looking at the relationship between the desires of our hearts and our ability to delight in God.
0:17.0	How do we live with the idea that our desire, which can be so complex and messy,
0:23.0	is a reflection of God and the core of who we're created to be?
0:27.2	Dan invites us to consider delight as a key to living with our desire.
0:34.7	How do we address the complexity and the disruptive convolution of desire, particularly as we own the reality that there are desires within us that we simply know are excessive or grandiose or dark and perverted, especially when we think in terms of our
0:59.2	sexuality. Though this is too vast to address in a 20-minute window, it's still so important
1:07.5	to go back to the framework that we left off in our last time on Psalm 37,
1:14.5	that the real satisfaction of our heart is the capacity within us to delight in God.
1:25.3	And as we begin to play with that and to say that the very core of our
1:30.6	lives desires, whether that's about marriage, about children, about a new house, about a new job,
1:38.6	about moving to a new area, starting school, the desires that move us that actually at a practical and existential level
1:47.9	shape who we are and what we do, they require us to engage in this intersection between
1:56.0	how the desire for a particular lunch and a desire for the living God actually intersect.
2:05.7	So as we invite our hearts into this, it should be clear that very little is clear.
2:13.9	And yet our frame of reference with regard to desires that feel overwhelming or dark
2:22.7	or excessive have been handled, generally speaking, by simply a binary. This is a good desire to go to church.
2:32.1	This is a bad desire to go drinking with my friends.
2:36.0	And some have simply tried to conform themselves to so-called good desires and shut down bad desires.
2:45.0	Others have, in many ways, complied to so-called bad desires and found really good things happening,
2:53.0	a really great time, or destructive consequences that actually seem to then validate
3:02.1	that I should have been going to church rather than hanging out with friends in a bar.
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