A Life-Defeating Pursuit...

Do you ever think about why selfishness is such a life-defeating pursuit? Why greed, lust, murder, coveting, lying, stealing, abusing people, and adultery are sinful? It’s because it shifts the focus on you 100%. You become blind to satisfying your desires over doing the right thing, helping others and serving God. It won’t allow you to multi-task no matter how much you think it will. It’s like staring in your rear-view mirror while trying to drive your car forward on the highway. It just won’t work. Once you get that high, that a selfish act brings, it requires frequency and repetition to continue to bring you that “high”. As time goes on, you’ll need more and more frequency and quantity to continue to enjoy the “rush”. Finally, just as someone addicted to drugs, you’ll move from one simple easy drug (pot to the cocaine), to expensive stuff just to get that same feeling. You will find yourself spending long hours, working harder (with less money), spending less time with family and friends, all consumed with pursuing something that will never satisfy what it’s supposed too. It will leave you depressed, lonely, and dissatisfied with life. It’s like when you anticipate the sequel to a movie that has been all “hyped” up, only to leave the theater heavily disappointed because it didn’t live up to your expectations the first movie made for you. Jesus said that we become a slave to anything we devote ourselves to. And the sad thing is, it’ll never satisfy as it once did. When we habitually sin, we become a slave to sin. And we will never get that one last satisfying joy that we think it will bring, leaving us disappointed and unsatisfied with life.

15 The leech has two suckers that cry out, “More, more!” There are three things that are never satisfied–no, four that never say, “Enough!”: 16 the grave,the barren womb,the thirsty desert,the blazing fire. Proverbs 30:15-16