What Leads You Away from God? Is It Not Because of Your Inner Wicked Desires? Do You Give Into Your Those Desires [or Lusts?] A Point to Ponder . . .

The Seven Deadly Sins, are you guilty?

A Daily Devotional for September 30, 2025

One’s Wicked Desires Take Him Away

“Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.” Proverbs 1: 28.

Can it be imagined that when the wicked [or hypocrite is] . . . in this distress but that they will desire to be saved? There is the hypocrite’s desire. Now his desire seems to have life and spirit in it. Also, he desires, in his youth, his health, and the like; yet it comes to naught [nothing]. You shall see him drawn to life in Mark 10:17.[1] He comes running and kneeling and asking and that, as I said, in youth and health and that is more than men merely natural do. But all to no purpose. He went as he came, without the thing desired. The conditions propounded were too hard for this hypocrite to comply withal (Mark 10: 21-22). Some indeed make a great noise with their desires over some again do. But in conclusion all comes to one, they meet there where they go whose desires are not granted.

“For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained” to a higher strain of desires, “when God taketh away his soul?” [For,] “Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?” (Job 27: 8-9). Did he not, even when he desired life, yet break with God in the day when conditions of life were propounded to him? Did he not, even when he asked what good things were to be done that, he might have eternal life, refuse to hear or to comply with what was propounded to him? How then can his desires be granted, who himself refused to have them answered? No marvel then if he perishes like his own dung, if they that have seen him shall say they miss him among those that are to have their desires granted.

[1] The so called “Rich young ruler.”