Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way.

This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon as a part of the Sabbath practice.

I got out of bed this morning because I wanted something.

I wanted something. I wanted to watch the sun rise or kind of rise

is over a cup of Kenyan. I wanted a little time alone in the quiet with God before the three-headed chaos monster of Jude, Moses, and Sunday was out of its lair.

God bless them.

I wanted to be with you and reenter my mind and body on the reality of Jesus and talk about the Sabbath, one of my all-time favorite practices from the way of Jesus. And as weird as it sounds, this is actually

my job and Sunday is my Monday, I wanted to work. I wanted to contribute to human flourishing

in my own small way and I wanted to make a little money to pay for

dinner tonight for my children and myself in Tammy.

My point is, my point is I woke up with all sorts of desires and those desires are what got me out of bed on a stormy, dark, winters morning.

Desire is a great motivator.

It is essentially the engine of our life.

Its function is to get us out of bed in the morning

and propel us out into the world.

But if at any point, desire is no longer

under our control. We're not at the steering wheel anymore and instead it is driving our life at that point we're in trouble.

Because when you take a closer look at the dynamics of desire, you realize really fast,

and you don't need a degree in philosophy to figure this out, that desire is one of those things that is never ever satisfied.

As far back as a thousand BC, the Cohaleth of Ecclesiasties said,

quote, the eye is not satisfied with seeing.

A more recent poet just said, I can't get no satisfaction. Same idea.

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