We always seem to want what we do not have.
A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of flying, while the pilot on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of returning home.
A man spends money he doesn’t have in order to buy a new car, while missing his first car (with no AC and an AM radio) for the rest of his life.
We buy HD televisions as wide as our living room walls, then pull up a 60-year-old black-and-white movie on an obscure movie channel.
We always seem to want what we do not have.
Welcome to the life of an addict. Yesterday’s hit wore off overnight. Today’s indulgence will leave us empty tomorrow. Nothing this world has to offer truly satisfies.
Recovery Step: If you want constant emptiness and hopelessness, stick with your addiction. But if you want true peace and joy, stick with “the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth” (Exodus 34:6).
