Just saying (or typing, rather) the word makes me feel kinda dirty. It’s always been a strange sounding word to me. But God said it, so I guess it’s okay.

I’m not a big Mark Driscoll fan, but I was listening to a message of his about the heart. He was saying that all issues of sin are really a matter of the heart. Drinking problem? Gotta change the heart. Lust? Change the heart. Overeating? Change the heart. We’ve gotten really good at establishing rules (don’t do this, do that) to avoid the temptations and failures, but we still don’t change the heart motivation, and the part of us that drives our desire for wrong things is still broken.

The thing that struck me was when he dropped a classic C.S. Lewis quote about our desires not being too strong, but too weak. We have weak desires for the right things. If our desire to follow God in obedience was stronger we wouldn’t be so apt to doing silly and destructive things to feed the cravings of our soul.

Driscoll said a question he gets a lot from people is, “don’t you think you’re missing out?” As though being a Christian means you can’t do a lot of really fun things. It got me thinking, what am I missing out on?

• Binge drinking, drunkenness, and puking
• Promiscuity
• Conflict/distrust with my wife
• Excessive self-consciousness
• The emptiness that follows filling whatever craving I have in hopes that it finally satisfies me

I’ve been there, and I can say I’m not missing out on anything. Seems like the world is the one missing out. I pray God would give me stronger desires for the right things.