To consume without satisfaction is to eat for the sake of craving, to buy for the sake of wanting, to look for the sake of searching, to scroll in the hope of waking from that stupor of consumption: the wasting disease that wants more, the more it gets. It is a disease that tries making bricks without straw. It turns rivers into rocks and robs a parched man of the ability to drink while he stands in the rain, face Heavenward, lips sealed. He'll soon turn to stone standing there looking but never finding, buying but never having, scrolling but never seeing. His appetite whet by the things pointing to their maker, the one who fashioned men's appetites and strength and vision. One glimpse at this God would quench his thirst, would overflow his capacity and wake all his senses to goodness. But the God he wants he fears will ask for everything. So, he does not look. He does not kneel, and thus, consumption consumes him. Be not that man forever thirsty, forever avoiding the God who wants you as much as you need him. Rather, be the man of courage who gives up all for that glimpse behind the veil now, and, in eternity, entry into the very presence of God: the cure for our consumption.
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The secret to contentment...The ‘GOD who Provides’ dwelling within me, encamping around me. The presence of Shalom. ‘Having, sustenance, shelter, clothing, “Let us therewith be content”. It is so reassuring to hear myself say in the midst of locust-swarms of inflation, the madness of hate-riots, the possibility of political tyranny, poverty, the recognition of the falling of God’s wrath on my ever-more ungodly homeland, even my planet, “My God has always provided in every situation, He will continue to do so... after all, He got Lot and his family out of Sodom, (DO NOT look back with longing)...”
SO good! thanks Abby!