Any Obsession is Bad, Part 2 (TMF:2268)

Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Peace to Live By: Any Obsession is Bad, Part 2 (TMF:2268) - Daniel Litton
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       That is because when we magnify something and make it more important than anything else, even if we are only doing this in our minds, it means we become a slave to reaching the end result of that obsession. It means that we have to win or we aren’t going to feel good. We have to ‘get’ whatever it is to feel complete again. This is a bad place to be in because we are already complete. We should never need any person or any thing to become complete. We are already complete in our relationship with God. A common temptation that people fall into is, “I have to have this person as my partner in order to feel complete. If I cannot work things out with this person, then my life is over.” We’ve all heard this, seen this, perhaps experienced this in a variety of ways. A person can become fixated with a certain other person that they want to spend the rest of their lives with. Perhaps they’ve been dating the person a while, or perhaps they haven’t even gone on a date with them. But we need to realize the fallacy in this type of thinking. Certainly there isn’t only one lover that can make us happy.