Made to Crave

I am reading a good book on my kindle right now called “Made to Crave” by Lysa Terkeurst. The book is really making me think. God gave us all this crazy brain enzyme that makes us crave things (ha not too scientific I know)…Everyone has their different craving… some satisfy it with food, others with drinks, others with sex. Some satisfy it with shopping, others with work (being on top), others with money, and the list goes on and on. What if we are meant to satisfy that craving with God: with His love, with His power, through our prayer.

One of my favorite quotes from this book is “we consume what we think about, and what we think about can consume us if we are not careful.” You see, if every time we craved something, we prayed instead, would we be satisfied? Just a thought.

"Gluttony is a grievous sin, according to theology, if it induces us to find all our contentment in the gratifying of our appetites (not only food). But this is almost all our society offers us today; the only strenuousness of activity to which we are excited. We are left with a hollow at our core, a sinking feeling in our spirits from day to day." - Henry Fairlie