What Do You Desire Most

What is your greatest desire?
What sets your heart on fire?
What motivates you to action?
What stirs your fiery passion?

Stop for a moment and reflect
On desires and their effects
How they affect the way we act
Their influence often trumps the facts

We desire what we don’t own
We crave and covet; groan and moan
When our desires are unmet
The blessings we have, we forget

When we get what we desire
Do we find that we require
More things to quench and satisfy
Our many wants that reach the sky?

Our longings point us to the One
Who did what no one could have done
Who sacrificed His life for us
Are our desires for Jesus?

Do we desire God's kingdom?
It's in Christ we find true freedom
Freedom from chasing earthly things
In Him, we find rest from longings

What do you desire most?
Is it in Jesus that you boast?
Do you long to be more like Him?
Does His love fill you to the brim?

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Date: 3/12/2017 1:39:00 AM
Joanne this is such a fabulous write. I love the lines, "When our desires are unmet the blessings we have, we forget." I witness so many people who moan about their lives, when in reality they are forgetting their amazing blessings. A worthy 7 in my opinion.
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Date: 3/12/2017 8:33:00 AM
Thank you so much for your encouraging thoughts on this poem. Yes, sometimes we long so much for something that we do not have and that creates a blind spot for the many blessings that God has given to us.
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