“With disordered hearts we are prone to crave created things instead of satisfying ourselves with the Creator. We chase after money and success; we pursue power and prestige. We cling to people and hope to find our security in them. We seek the comfortable life and search for entertainment and other stimuli of many kinds. We obsess over our body image and exercise compulsively in a futile attempt to remain young. Our desires become distracted…
Some of the things we run after are not sinful per se, but because we place them before the Lord, they corrupt our affections…
In order to grow in Christ, we need to allow him to purify our hearts and purge away all that is scattered and ignoble…
The goal of the Christian life is not to destroy desire but to allow the Holy Spirit to purify our inner desires and direct them back toward God.”
Glenn Myers in Seeking Spiritual Intimacy (Downers Grove: IVP, 2011) 57-58.