What is Desire?

What is desire for you? And what is the strength of your desire? This has been the latest wondering thought and reflection in my mind of the past 2 days. I guess these have been due to the reason of questioning what I am doing here and also what i hope to achieve while I'm here. Its been a trip that I'd been planning for 8 months but here there is a questioning of what I'm doing now that I'm here.

There's been many feelings of frustration as I just waste these precious days but in the depths of my heart, I am so aware of the great desire I have for this quiet time with God. But I am sure that time and again, the evil one keeps drifting my desired attention from God to something to keep wasting the whole day. But in the midst of these frustrations, there is a immense desire to read the brilliant books I bought, spend time in prayer, do writing on my reflections and also just delighting in God with the lovely views. And none of these desires have been touched with real depth.

But today as I reflect on Desire, i realize that Desire is something that's deep within your heart. Desire has the ability to make someone great in the sight of God when its worked upon. Desire can either become a negative influence or positive influence. And as I go a little more into depth, I conclude that desires we have in our hearts have got to do with what is it that we are do with our lives.

If we find ourselves caught in sin all the time, then obviously, we keep realizing that our deepest desires within our hearts are negative influences for us. We keep finding ourselves coming back to the starting point where we think about what we are doing with our lives.

But then again, most of the time, if we find ourselves being contented all the time with what we have and are given, we'll find ourselves filled with grace and joy as we are constantly driven by the awesome god-given desires in our hearts. And as a result, its a huge reflection of how our desires serve us as amazingly positive influences.

And in the spirit of lent, what is your desire? And is that desire drawing you closer to God? And if it is, then pray to God for the grace cause he has placed it there for a reason. But don't let anyone stop or discourage you from achieving that God-given desire in the depths of your amazingly glorious heart!