Too Enticing

3For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. 4They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you.
--1 Peter 4:3-4

We are just plain weird. There's no doubt about it. Why we would intentionally restrain ourselves from indulging every desire is bewildering. If you can get it, get it--this is our world's mantra. Dear God help us to see it for what it is. Romans 1 sums up the problem. We either worship creation or worship the creator. You have given us so many beautiful things--food, sex, toys, beer, to name just a few. But Lord, we worship these things--we disadvantage and disrespect our neighbor to acquire them. And we would rather have them than you who made them. If only you'd made them more dull. Then maybe we could resist them. Your greatness and the greatness of your creation are what make us stumble. The things you've created are so enticing--indeed too enticing. They either direct us to the throne of glory or into a flood of dissipation.