Three things everyone wants

In Genesis 3:6 it says that Eve “saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise.” While this verse is an inspired account of Eve’s psychology, it also gives insight into what motivates all human beings. It is paradigmatic.

Hence, from this verse we learn that there are three things that everyone wants. What are they? Food = Life. Delight to the Eyes = Glory. Wisdom = Knowledge. We all want life, glory, and knowledge. Every human wants those things to some degree. Come October the Yankees will be vying for baseball glory. Come this evening I will sit down with my family for fellowship and food, both ingredients for a good life (in my dining room newly glorified through a refinished wood floor, fresh paint on the ceiling, and new light fixtures). Right now people are surfing the web for all sorts of knowledge--some wholesome, some rotten, and some frivilous.

What we want we get in Christ. He restores life, glory, and wisdom to us. In communion we receive holy food, through God’s Word we receive knowledge and by the Spirit sanctifying us we are (eventually) glorified. The wanting isn'nt what is bad in us; it is where we find the solution to our wants that counts.