Day 334- Crave to be saved from your cravings..
📖Daily Reading
1 Peter 1-2
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📝 Reflection
1 Peter 2: 1-3
“So get rid of all evil behavior. Be done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy, and all unkind speech. Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment, now that you have had a taste of the Lord’s kindness.”
Crave is an interesting word. It means to feel a powerful desire for something, to want so greatly that it feels like a need, or to yearn for. The root word is the old english word crafian which means demand. Often we cave in to our cravings and 9 times out of 10 we probably regret it right? We cave because the feeling of desire is so strong it doesn’t feel like just a desire it feels like a need.
As I was looking at the word save and salvation too this morning I also though of the word salve. Salve is a healing substance, ointment or treatment for a wound, a remedy or soothing influence upon something. So what if we were able to shift ourselves in the moments of craving something we know probably is not good for us in the long run to intentionally craving to be saved or rescued from this craving. What ever the mind focuses on, has faith in and believes will come to pass. These are some of the promises we have been reading about in the Bible together.
We can use our thoughts to intentionally be a salve to the open wound or void that a craving can make us feel like we have to fill with the desired ‘something’ now! It feels immediate, like an urgent need. The good news is that Jesus came and role modeled what it was like to master his desires, rather than be a slave to them. Interesting side note; the word slave and salve also have the same letters 🧐.
So how did Jesus role model this? He did several things and he did everything. He spent a lot of time alone, a lot of time in prayer, he walked with God at Godspeed, divine pace, he was a slave to God not to man, he relied on scripture, the living word and truth, he loved God and himself enough to be completely humble, he loved others as they were and invited them to follow him but did not force or beg. He craved God and being a slave to Him, he craved being saved from his cravings. He demonstrated this in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross. He surrendered his life to have the new life that is possible for you and I too. We have to be willing to direct our thoughts, our craven minds to crave being saved from our desires and to desire the healing salve of craving God instead.
Rather than resist cravings, we must redirect and be wiling to be uncomfortable while our bodies and minds ‘catch up’. We must choose and act according to the new desired craving to give ourselves new experiences and evidence that we can be saved from cravings. God wants the best for us, so when we decide to be a slave to him we are saved, we are healed. We receive salve for our open wounded hearts, we have salvation and hope for a new life with new desires.
✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt
How can you use this concept today to begin to redirect your cravings vs. resisting? What we resists persists, right? You can be saved from your cravings, can you trust in this promise? You can learn to crave the things that are good for you, can you be open to this possibility?
📖Tomorrows Reading
1 Peter 3-4
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