My response to that is it is natural to have “other” desires also. Yes, we KNOW that the Lord should be first in our lives, but every now and then, we allow other desires to creep into our hearts. If it has been a long time since someone has held us in their arms; we may DESIRE to be held. If life has been dealing you a particularly rough hand; your DESIRE may be for a sense of peace. If your physical and spiritual beauty has not been affirmed lately, you may DESIRE the appreciative glance of someone of the opposite sex. There is nothing wrong with having desires like these and others. It is my strong opinion that God was the ONE who gave us these desires. He made us so that we will go out of our way to relate to others as lovers, friends, family and associates. Otherwise, many of us would just throw up our hands and become islands unto ourselves.
When it comes to our desires, we can have them without them messing up our relationship to God. Let’s keep our desire for God first while we also acknowledge the other desires. Perhaps more important than having “other” desires is using spiritual discretion concerning to whom we express our desires.
As best we can, we should hang out with people of the same spiritual mindset. We may not be able to pick our family, but we can pick our lovers and friends. By picking the right kind of people to spend our time with; we will be better positioned to keep our “other” desires from competing with our desire for God.
When we allow otherwise “good” desires to become competing desires against our desire for God; we are the ones who lose out.
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