Calibrate

Notes

tune my heart to sing...

Rolling Stones sounded wise- “can’t always get… what you need”—Problem is that for most of us, getting what we need is often no better than simply getting nothing at all! What if the point became that you can’t always get what you want, but it’s possible to want exactly what God wants to give you

IOW- what if rather than a life in pursuit of a list of things that I only half complete, I shifted to a life where my desires increasingly became what God was eagerly pouring into my life

My choices become half satisfaction with my current desires or complete satisfaction with a new set of desires

** It becomes clear- the goal of teh heart is reaching the point of satisfaction

The heart is where satisfaction happens

God made you with a capacity for satisfaction...

But the way God made you, only certain satisfactions are the ones you need

The human heart is like a 3-day old puppy looking for mother’s milk—wandering, competitive, and determined to have what it’s after

*** So determined that it will even settle for something else—you can poke your finger out and that little puppy will suck your fingerprint off if you’ll let it

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst...”

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maybe intro—struggle for satisfaction… maybe priblen wuth dissatisfactions and negative feelings isn’t that life is so bad but that you’ve labeled the wrong things good (life so filled ewuth pais… calling the wrong things pleasure”

info-

God desires to satisfy your desires

desire happens in the heart; the heart chases satisfaction

every tie think of seeking, ask what desire really being fulfiled

desire drives decisions; happens in the heart

appetites for

filfilled desires creates appetite

there is a close connection between what you choose to enjoy and what you deeply desire

appetites drive decisions…; the appetites that drive your decisions can be cultivated

the key to having everything you want is wanting what God wants you to have

what chhose—half satisfied with what you already wabt or copmpletely satisfied with what God wants you to have

note warning signs--

frustration wuth life’s unfairbess

afraid of life’s losses (trist)

enslaved to life’s schedules??

plagued with pain (cf unexplained bruises—evidence of living under the influence of desire)

cf health class--”get used to...”

value-first--”where treasure is...”—rather than value what youre pursuing, pursue what you valeu

wrap what you dont currently love in what you do

paint what you don’t enjoy with an image of what it leads to that you do

take advantage of a new flow—new community that loves what God loves for them (think of what you had to have—if never saw advertisement or mannequin or pinterest post… (cf high school yearbook—would never have just picked that haircut)

why- don’t want to live with needless disappointment & dissatisfaction; don’t want to keep wasting energy chasing what isn’t going to be and reeling from what never should have been

first order—wasy to see

second order—not so obvious

What- the best way to have what you desire is to desire what God wants you to have

consider two options—hapf satisfied...

heart is where satisfaction happens

rarely think of desires as directable

** re-direct energy from frustrated chasing to cultivated desiring by means of intentional delighting?

** Often so b;inded by the goodness of the desire that you don’t notice the misguidedness of teh process of satisfying it (wrong time, wrong way, wrong order)

?siigns of dissatisfaction point to skewed delights

rememdy isn’t better pursuing, it’s better delighting

free from jealous comparing (look a little farther down the road)

How- activate to cultivate

reconsider outcomes (look a little farther—cf ends justify means—meth teeth, etc (every misguided appetite has its own version of meth teeth)

address desires with values—relentlesslessly (always- “more precious…ont denying the preciousness…just pressing the point of relative value) (Cf where your treasure is…—et pursuits follow values, don’t just value what you already pursue) (chart a course based on aspirational values)

take advantage of a new flow (people who share a heart for God…)

(WHat) if- Cf car recall—accelerator stick; ?ideas in or other place, like Isaiah—cf cafe metaphor—elucidate and narrate?