Soul Cravings

We do not crave God, we need Him, and He is our only solution, but the only thing we as humans crave is evil

I have not read Erwin's book, but some part of me is skeptical that human beings are made solely of cravings. Is there nothing else in the human spirit?

It's hard to say, but I believe at our core there is something that remains undefined and I'm not sure it's a craving.

This is an issue I'll definetly have to explore more. Not sure if I really have a strong opinion either way.

Just playing the opposing role.

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I am not sure that I can agree with ghost_hail. I know people who are craving alcohol, drugs, sex, food, friendship, boy-friend, girl-friend and all kinds of things.
To crave God means that we desire to be amongst him in everything. Yes, we were created to worship Him. However, we are still not just jumping up and down until the next worship service. It is something that comes out of our time with him and experiences that we are going through. To crave God is an emotion that even God does not give us.

We can crave God!

I agree with David in that there are plenty of things that people can crave, and one of them is God. God created us to crave Him, sure, but the world fell and we naturally tend to sin. That's why it's so hard for us to choose God to satisfy our cravings.

I think that it pleases God tremendously when we fill that craving with a relationship with Him; that's what it's all about. The first step is beginning a relationship with Him, but from there it's important that we pray for Him to draw us closer every day; relationships aren't very meaningful until we grow in them. My sinful nature makes it easy for me to "complete" myself with sin, but trusting in Him daily, "craving" Him, is the only true fulfillment.

As for me i definently cannot get my head around this question, but i do know that i spend most.. scratch that, all the time needing fulfillment. I suppose i crave fulfillment. And i would take a stab and say that alot of people are like this too. I hate the feeling of being "broken". I cant stand doing something wrong. Lori Akers once told me that anything less than what is right is sin. So ive kinda put two and two together to realize my lack of fulfillment comes from doing wrong "sin". But i think about this and it drives me crazy because i feel fulfillment in god and things bigger than me, So i try fulfilling my life with god only to find a lack of fulfillment in "sin". Its lifes ultimate paradox.

Note on my last blog, I looked up the definition of paradox to make sure i used it in the right context lol and it made me smile because it said a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. And that my freinds is EXACTLY how i feel.

I'm back.

As I've pondered about this craving thing, this need for fulfillment, I have some extended thoughts to throw out there, er... here.

When Adam and Eve were in the garden, I can't help but imagine the perfect RELATIONSHIP that they had with God. I believe they probably had wants and desires, but they were ultimately satisfied. That relationship that they held with the Creator was enough for them. Then they were lied to and the fall happened; nothing has been the same since. That once satisfied feeling that Adam and Eve held has been replaced with emptiness where the relationship once stood.

I picked up a book by Donald Miller the other day and have just begun reading it. He talks about the fall and about what it would be like being naked in the garden and then being thrust into a brand new experience of no longer having the intimate bridge with God, having to be clothed. We were all created to be told WHO WE ARE from an outside source. I THINK THAT'S BOTH VERY IMPORTANT AND VERY COOL. Adam and Eve experienced first hand the transition. They were defined by God and then fell into sin and had to search for the definition that the now gone relationship used to provide. They couldn't just walk around naked anymore because they were ashamed.

That need for definition is what draws us to crave things. Because of these cravings, people have created lies in promise of fulfillment. We have to have the right clothes. And cars. And intelligence. We create and climb invisible social hierarchy ladders in a sinful attempt to define ourselves if by no other means than by comparison to those that are on a lower rung. Those examples among many others are all outside sources that we define our lives by, but they aren't what we were created for. It's not that we are trained to crave destructive things - we are born to crave them because of the fall. The problem is that God created us for relationship with Him, but we just keep trying to fit other crap in the emptiness.

It makes me feel so lucky that God sought me out - I couldn't have ever even began to replace those cravings with a relationship unless he initiated it. It's still a struggle, though, to keep myself in check and be totally satisfied in Him without going back to my sinful beginnings and trying to cram worldy things where only God can go. It makes me look forward to heaven where I will be perfect in my relationship with Him like Adam and Eve were, pre-fall.

Brilliant Bryce "That need for definition is what draws us to crave things"
totally hit home

Thanks for ruining wednesday nights talk bryce... j/k. I like the word definition...a lot. We can also say IDENTITY. We/I am on an adventure, a journey to discover who i am and who i was meant to be. To crave God and ultimate fulfillment or to crave the thing(s) and the feeling(s) that "i" think will satisfy... knowing in the end it will leave emptiness and distance... distance from the only source that loves uncondionally. "IT IS INSANITY TO RUN FROM GOD IN SEARCH FOR LOVE."

i like where this is going except 4 one thing, well craving itself i guess. i just dont think that word covers it. i crave chocolate or music, i dont think those can be compared to god. i think that want and need is soooo much stronger then what our understanding of the word 'craving' could possibly cover. its gotta be bigger than that. God big.

Okay, so I'm not sure how I'm going to say what I'm thinking (I tend to suck at that), but I will certainly try. As I was sitting at church trying to digest what Freddy was saying, I started thinking about the things I crave. Some were weird and silly (maybe not as weird as john mayer...:D) and others were, well, sin. And it hit hard. How can I crave a relationship with God, but also crave sin? Or how can i crave something that makes me feel so lousy afterwards?
I'm sure it will take more talks with Freddy and headaches, but I will figure it out. Eventually.

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