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unhealthy. So one of my great friends is Kurt Thompson and he talks a lot

about this in his new book.

I encourage every one of you to get it.

We actually have an old podcast, we'll link to

where he and I talked about this.

But he talks about desire and how God really,

a lot of our longings aren't evil. They are just suppressed because we are not

honest about them but we act out of our desire and when we don't actually know what it is we're longing for and what we want, we sometimes settle for, you know, coping that is immature or insufficient for what we actually are longing for, which is deep connection, intimacy.

We're looking for beauty and goodness that God creates that he has built for us a lot of times.

And so he's been teaching me. You know, we're in this little

confessional community I've mentioned before about what it is we want and to be

able to articulate that in a way that gets to the heart of it and not just glosses over it because we largely are

acting out of what it is we want. I just think there's a lot of confusion

between desire and sin because it feels like a lot of our desires lead to sin and a lot of our

desires are actually deeply in a beautiful way from God and yet they lead to

sin because we try to get to the end of what he's given us and what we're

craving with things of this world.

You know, and again, I always go back to Romans 8 that we set our mind on the flesh and it leads to sin and death.

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