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At one time or another many of us have expressed a desire for something or someone. Whether the desire entails a specific food, location, time to pray, or attention from another person, the need to have these desires met is part of our human condition. We are created to experience both spiritual and physical desires that when properly ordered express genuine gratitude toward God our Father. The sense of gratitude further expands in the proclamation of faith in the Son Jesus Christ who as the second person of the Trinity is the source and summit of our Christian life.
The idea that our spiritual and physical desires are inherent by nature reflects the dynamic of how God envisioned our creation. Our first parents were made without the inclination to deviate from God’s love and thus experience a perfect sense of unity and communion with Him. In a sense, Adam and Eve had no reason to covet anything as we are told in Sacred Scripture, they were provided with everything except for the opportunity to take fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.[1]
As the Divine story unfolds Adam and Eve are proposed with an opportunity to be like God and thus take from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil which God Had forbidden them to do. The Devil proposed that what God had given Adam and Eve was insufficient hence the need to take from the forbidden tree. The story reveals how the Devil introduces the sin of covetousness or the act of fulfilling the disordered desires of the flesh. The Catechism expands on this notion of a disordered desire as follows,
Continued below.
The idea that our spiritual and physical desires are inherent by nature reflects the dynamic of how God envisioned our creation. Our first parents were made without the inclination to deviate from God’s love and thus experience a perfect sense of unity and communion with Him. In a sense, Adam and Eve had no reason to covet anything as we are told in Sacred Scripture, they were provided with everything except for the opportunity to take fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.[1]
As the Divine story unfolds Adam and Eve are proposed with an opportunity to be like God and thus take from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil which God Had forbidden them to do. The Devil proposed that what God had given Adam and Eve was insufficient hence the need to take from the forbidden tree. The story reveals how the Devil introduces the sin of covetousness or the act of fulfilling the disordered desires of the flesh. The Catechism expands on this notion of a disordered desire as follows,
Continued below.