Do not say chocolate. For The Love, please do not say chocolate!
“Life is not made better because we overindulge in an unhealthy choice.” -Made To Crave Devotional by Lysa TerKeurst.
Well, isn’t that the truth?
Maybe food isn’t the craving you need to overcome. Maybe it’s that desire to spend even when there is no money to spend with. Or you long to win at a game you have no business playing. Perhaps you crave a drink to soothe, or a touch to heal broken places, or a feeling of excitement that’s long since gone. I get it. I do. My own path to greater dependence on God is littered not only with devil dog wrappers, but also with the remnants of desires fulfilled in altogether unholy ways.
And I am aware that the people God has placed in my life, whether lovers of Him or not, are watching me. They are watching to see what this faith in Him provides that will be of some comfort to them. Or if My God will bring them some measure of contentment that they do not yet have.
Am I living a life that exudes a dependence on and fulfillment by this God I claim to fiercely love? Does my satisfaction of those cravings demonstrate a dependence on Him at all?
This is not a journey with a definite ending of “Now, I’m finally walking in truth and light and will never need another lesson again.”. It is, however, one that will need constant reevaluating and course-correcting. I recognize that I’m going to need others with me as I go about attempting to do just that. Deeper dependence on God and less dependence on Other Things will require a strength I know I don’t often possess. It will ask me to mine places I don’t often want to go.
So, consider this an invitation. I’m inviting you into this place of need. This place where our need meets His desire to fill it. I need friends to hold me accountable, during. I need encouragement, throughout. I need to know I’m not alone on this journey.
So… what do you crave?
Would you join me? For the next six weeks, you’ll find me over here at Proverbs 31 Ministries’ Online Bible Study as we work through “Made To Crave” by Lysa TerKeurst. I’ll be joining approximately 34,000 others determined to understand that life is only made better when we see the bounty that already exists in our daily lives. I’ll be tracking my progress by writing about it, here, each Thursday.
There is safety in numbers.
We are better together.
I need lots of wise counsel. God said so.
If this post spoke to your heart about cravings you long to wage war against, or even if you’re just curious what online Bible study is all about, click the button below. You’ll find encouragement and lots of other invitations there.
Missindeedy 
Chocolate AND peanut butter…. but, seriously… there are so many things out there that I have been craving and no wonder I’m having trouble focusing my walk… or I lost my focus and THEN I craved other things.
So glad to be trying this online study thing… It’s been dry without a Bible study at church!
I hear the dry without study! Oh, how I do! Before allergies entered our home, those two things were a big weakness for me. Funny how God can remove a craving through circumstances you could never foresee, isn’t it? 🙂
Wonderful post, as always, Missy! I can’t wait to dig in to this study with you!
I love this “They are watching to see what this faith in Him provides that will be of some comfort to them.” Thank you ❤
I loved Made to Crave…it helped me so much in my recovery and I can't wait to read it with an amazing group of women!!!
Looking forward to getting to know you through your posts as we study this book! 🙂
Me too! 🙂
Divine accountability. I like it! And yes, you still want to be my friend, fish tacos and all! 🙂
Just because it’s you. Okay. 😉 Because Divine accountability can overcome fish tacos. Oh, yet it can!
Yes Missy I will join you! I need a greater dependence on God and nothing else. Thank you for speaking what I have been feeling in my heart! Natalie
Natalie, hearts united in a common goal – there could be nothing more beautiful.
Before I came to Christ I sure didn’t know about the unhealthy things cluttering up my pea brain!! I’m so ready for this spiritual transformation!! 🙂 Loved this post!!
Me too, Trish! Right there with ya. And… thank you!
Well, if God said so 🙂
I’m excited about this one.
Yuppers. He shorely did say so. I heard Him. 😉
Love this, Missy! A deeper dependence on God and less dependence on other things! Yes, I have a list of things God has revealed to me that I have been craving over Him. You are definitely not alone, sister. So happy to be walking this journey together. Hugs! ~ Shelly
Thank you sweet sister! That list, we shall tackle it side by side. Thank you for the encouragement!