TO BE LOVED…
There’s something within us all that I want to examine.
And at a guess I don’t think you have even thought of it. (?)
Just a guess of course, on my part. I can’t know for sure.
When performers/entertainers appear on talent shows, they are often found gushing – on ‘how much success on this show will mean to them’. ‘I really want this etc.’
“I want this more than anything…” – Those kind of gushings.
What is it they want?
Well firstly, we might say they believe they have talent and they want others to believe it too.
Backing up a bit from this desire, we can start by saying that before this, they want to be noticed.
To be noticed. But is this resultant attention, the right kind of love? Is this the love we need?
When two children, perhaps the same age, are together with their family, and one steps forward to ‘perform’ in front of their ‘audience’ – by perhaps reciting a rhyme, or singing a song, or doing a dance, they usually receive a large round of applause and affirmation from their loving family.
The other child usually feels immediately, the need to compete. So they set about showing what they can do.
Why?
Because it is within us all to want to be appreciated. And when someone else is getting that affirmation – it provokes the other child to want the same affirmation.
They too want to be thought highly of. And to receive/achieve this – the child performs.
And it feels good, or gives us satisfaction, to think we are loved and appreciated or thought to have talent. Everybody wants to be loved.
If we can think of this basic human need and examine it thoroughly – we still might be only scratching the surface of why it is so important to us.
Which brings us to the question of why we do anything in life. Literally anything that involves others.
Doing well at school, at our job, at our club, at our church, at our local government, at a sport, in a drama, musically, at the Duke of Edinburgh awards and so on.
We write a blog post. Why? Why send it out there to others? What do we want to ‘get out’ of it, doing so?
Is it right to say that there is something we are unconscious of wanting, that causes us to ‘do things’.
We are examining motive, here.
Sometimes we so enjoy exercising our ability that a sense of having produced what we set out to produce – is reward enough, without the affirmation of others.
In the case of celebrities, pop stars, actors, comedians, etc. – they need that constant affirmation – they like to ‘thank’ their fans, and as the attention continues and they get the rave revue’s – everything is thought to be exactly as they desired it to be.
Why then do so many of them end up a mess? Broken, addicted, and so on? Seems this crowd adoration isn’t enough?
They like to remain up the popularity charts. It is their career – and they do earn a living out of it – and want to remain financially secure, living in the manner they have become accustomed to.
But they like – beyond the financial reward – they like to be admired and for many they like to be ‘idolised’ by their adoring public.
What is that?
What does that feed inside a person?
The devil took Jesus (as in they conversed together) – up to a high mountain and said: Luke 4/
5 Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. 7 Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours.”
The bible talks about… I John2/
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life – How much we are free from these things is THE BIG QUESTION.
Jesus was asked ‘on board’ by this fallen angel.
Had He yielded then, like the original Adam did, He too would have fallen under the dominion of sin, and this diabolic spirit’s dictatorship.
His nature would have changed, and that is the crux of the matter – God’s nature is the total opposite to man’s fallen nature.
—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life
All the above is the product or fruit of the fallen nature.
And success so gushed over and desired usually involves the above.
The enemy of mankind who is out to weaken the nations and keep the world in deception, offers us everything that will fulfil the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.
So many find that the enjoyment of all the things that fit these categories find also that the serpent has a sting in his tail – ready to strike when the time is right. That’s why so many fall prey to collapse, bondage and death.
They enjoy the adoration for a season – on the way up – absorbing all the attention fame can give.
Slowly the over-exposure and constant scrutiny begins to grate on them and resentment takes its place. Or their ego is not satiated and they still continue to need more.
Mankind was not made to be worshipped, he was made to worship.
To be in a relationship with The Only Living and True God – is to be aware of the life of The Holy Spirit through acceptance of Jesus the Christ.
This awareness is living in a different dimension that must be maintained from the day of acceptance of Christ onwards.
By maintenance of this uninterrupted fellowship, we operate out of a different mind set, and are then able to understand and appreciate (when it comes to the things of this life) – that: I Timothy 6/
17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. 18 Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share,
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