Practical Desire

copyright 2010  –  Ken Pullen

Scripture passages appear in Italics from the King James Version

Impractical path

the

world of desire

all desiring the world

all the world passing

once lusting, coveting begins, never satiated

O foolish man fated

desire,

desire,

desire

yet more

never quenched

always thirsting

feeling of desire

internally the envying liar

looking what else is in store

appetite for acquisition

living only as a noun

seeking to conquer, acquire

people,

places,

or things

no part of truths vocabulary

constant envying

like a three year old

unwrapping a gift

all excited

eyes appearing to burst

while within five minutes

more thirst,

never satiated

looking elsewhere

beyond

yet always within this world

the world is never enough

yet,

do they pause to contemplate

all they have overflowing upon their plate

will the desiring the world

ever see

before the time grows to late?

But thine eyes

and thine heart

are not but for thy covetousness,

and for to shed innocent blood,

and for oppression,

and for violence,

to do it.

And they come unto thee

as the people cometh,

and they sit before thee

as my people,

and they hear thy words,

but they will not do them:

for with their mouth they shew much love,

but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

And lo, thou art unto them

as a very lovely song

of one that hath a pleasant voice,

and can play well on an instrument:

for they hear thy words,

but they do not do them.

And when this cometh to pass,

(lo, it will come)

then shall they know

that a prophet hath been among them.

But
there were false prophets

also among the people,

even as there shall be false teachers among you,

who privily shall bring in damnable heresies,

even denying the Lord that brought them,

and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

And man shall follow their pernicious ways;

by reason of whom the way of truth

shall be evil spoken of.

And through covetousness

shall they with feigned words

make merchandise of you:

whose judgment now of a long time

lingereth not,

and their damnation slumbereth not.

All this passing world offers

is impractical desire

a long and winding road

with no rest

even upon death

false empty words

all will crumble and rot

no matter how much one acquires or has got

a worldly mansion

filled to the ceilings

still leaves an empty feeling

always desiring

more,

more,

more,

thinking the next conquest

acquisition

thing

will quench the void within

while in truth

all that envy, desire, coveting

is just an accumulation of never ending sin

Practical desire

leads

to true life

peace within

each day

begin

in thanksgiving unto the Lord

with all His blessings He does accord

Desire

the ways of God

the matters of heaven

think on things eternal

of true pleasure and joy

of the Lord, of pleasing God

rather than this passing

crazed

perverted

gone astray along their way

each and every day

world

where

no one

nor nothing

can save you

and

all will eventually experience eternity

it is just a matter of place

in one’s heart and spirit

do you create enough space

for the Lord to fill and do His work

when the Lord speaks

can you hear it

vibrate

the fiber of your heart and soul

or do you care more of this passing world

and make futile things your goal

We all have a spirit

in servitude

we are either servants of this world

of all that matters not

caring about the things that will rot

our spirits dry and blind

or

we are servants of God

and Christ Jesus the Son

where treasures beyond value one can find

Lay not up for yourselves

treasures upon earth,

where moth and rust doth corrupt,

and where thieves break through and steal:

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,

where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt,

and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

For where your treasure is,

there will be your heart also.

The light of the body is the eye:

if therefore thine eye be single,

thy whole body shall be full of light.

But if thine eye be evil,

thy whole body shall be full of darkness.

If therefore the light that is thee be darkness,

how great is thy darkness?

No man can serve two masters:

for either he will hate the one,

and love the other;

or else he will hold to the one,

and despise the other.

Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Therefore I say unto you,

Take no thought for your life,

what ye shall eat,

or what ye shall drink;

nor yet for your body,

what ye shall put on.

Is not life more than meat,

and the body more than raiment?

Behold the fowls of the air:

for they sow not,

neither do they reap,

nor gather into barns;

yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.

Are ye not much better than they?

But seek ye first the kingdom of God,

and His righteousness;

and all these things shall be added unto you.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow:

for the morrow shall take thought

for the things of itself.

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.