Solomon's Window: The Wandering of Desire

Lust applies not only to the bestial side of things; lust means literally—“I must have it at once, and I don’t care what the consequences are.” It is a characteristic that does not belong to the life hid with Christ in God.                                                                                           

Love is the opposite; love can wait endlessly. “Better is the sight of the eyes, than the wandering of the desire.” 

One of the first things Jesus Christ does is to open a man’s eyes and he sees things as they are. Until then he is not satisfied with the seeing of his eyes, he wants more, anything that is hidden he must drag to the light, and the wandering of desire is the burning waste of a man’s life.  

Jesus Christ says, “Come unto Me, . . . and I will give you rest,”  I will put you in the place where your eyes are open. And notice what Jesus Christ says we will look at—lilies and sparrows and grass. 

What man in his senses bothers about these things! 

The great emancipation in the salvation of God is that it gives a man the sight of his eyes, and he sees for the first time the handiwork of God in a daisy. 

No longer has he a burning lust that turns everything into a howling wilderness of wrong. 

The salvation of Jesus Christ enables a man to see for the first time in his life, and it is a wonderful thing.

Adapted from Oswald Chambers' The Shade of His Hand