“The deepest desire of every human heart is to be known and to be loved,” Father Joe Campbell said in a Feast of St. Joseph the Worker homily Saturday. “This desire reaches its fullness in the desire to be known by God Himself.”
Humanity's greatest desire is to belong and connect. And now we see each other. We hear each other. We share what we love, and it reminds us what we all have in common.
God at the Center
The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this. “Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth . . . whom I created for my glory,” says the Lord (Isaiah 43:6–7).
To describe a desire as 'deep' or the 'deepest', as opposed to being shallow, is thus to say something about its normative importance: it is something of profound significance for our human fulfilment about which we ought to be concerned, and it is correlated with the normative 'height' of the object of desire.
Share. Our deepest darkest desires are the things we hide not only from family and friends but also from ourselves. We shield these desires behind a duplicitous well-intentioned facade. This is not something everyone can maintain. Hiding in plain sight are our most despicable secrets.
In short, women's sexual desire is often a responsive rather than a spontaneous event. It develops after initial sensual contact. While a man's sexual desire may be energised by physical drive, typically a woman's sexual desire develops from her receptivity to gentle, relaxed sensual touching.
God Desires Us to Worship and Love Him. It's not enough just to know God, although that is certainly essential. God also wants us to worship and love Him. In fact, the Bible says that if we know God but don't worship and love Him, we're no better than the demons.
God's desire is that man yield completely to Him and cooperate wholeheartedly with Him for the highest of all beings and of the universe. Also, it is God's will to give to all men liberally without rebuking them for asking any and everything in line with the promise that they want or need for their good and His glory.
God's deep desire is to be expressed, not through or by Himself, but through man. The New Testament uncovers this great mystery: God manifested Himself in flesh, in a man. We know God is real, yet no man had ever seen Him. However, He has now been expressed through humanity.
Safety, belonging, and mattering are essential to your brain and your ability to perform at work, at home, and in life overall.
Buddha said very clearly that humans have five main desires: food, sleep, sex, money, fame. As we grow these five desires all become stronger.
But other desires kept them active: four in particular, which we can label acquisitiveness, rivalry, vanity, and love of power.
Our purpose on earth is to love God, then show the same love he offers us to others so they can come to know him. God wants us to lead others to him through our love for them!
He Hears Your Prayers
Whatever it is you are wanting, whatever you are asking Him for, He hears you. If He does not seem to be answering, do not give up. Everything will happen in His timing. God knows what is best for you and He hears the desires of your heart.
God puts in us desires that will bring His righteousness, peace, and joy to our lives (see Romans 14:17), and they never disagree with His Word. Wrong desires torment us, and we are impatient about receiving them, but sanctified desire comes with a willingness to wait on God's ways and timing.
The purpose of man is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever. Scripture: “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:6-8). It was the eternal purpose of God, even before He created the heavens and the earth, to demonstrate His supreme love to humanity.
God wants mankind to be fruitful and multiply. He wanted Adam to have children. God wasn't satisfied with one image-bearer; He wants the earth to be full of people who share His own image.
The first thing God desires of His people, is that they do justice. Not merely appreciate justice, not simply assent that justice is good, but we are to do justice. Our actions reflect our beliefs.
"What does the Lord require of you? To act justly, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."
All life forms share at least one essential purpose: survival. This is even more important than another key purpose for life, reproduction. Plenty of organisms, after all, are alive but do not reproduce. To be alive is more than passing genes along to the next generation.
Vishnu, Lord of the universe, is a Hindu God known to have reincarnated into more than one form called Avatars. In other words, he is recognizable through the faces of other gods who receive praise within the Hindu beliefs. Here we have sculptures of Vishnu and a few of his forms ranging 8th-19th century.
God has three purposes for marriage: companionship, procreation, and redemption. These purposes are still relevant today and are essential for a healthy society.
According to Eldredge, men have three core desires: battle, adventure, beauty.