



This happens all the time.
“People hungry for love, people who want to ‘connect,’ will often open
up a sequence of shallow, self-seeking relationships with other shallow,
self-seeking persons and find that at the end of the day they are emptier than
when they began.”
As Richard Lovelace remarks, to flee from God to some far country and search for fulfillment there is to find only a “black-market substitute.” “Instead of joy, the buzz in your temples from four martinis; instead of self-giving love, sex with strangers; instead of a parent’s unconditional enthusiasm for you as a person, only the professional support of a fashionable therapist who will indeed pump up your ego whenever it loses pressure but only while the meter is running. This type rebellion against God and flight from God removes us from the sphere of blessing, cutting us off from our only invisible means of support.”
Now that we know, what do we do? We will expand on this
conversation Sunday morning – if you can correctly target Markham Woods!