Prayer 10

The world is a supermarket of pleasure-pushers
and hucksters peddling dopamine surges.
Look at us: so needy and discontent that even the dumbest thrill can seem like transcendence. It even gets difficult to distinguish desire from lust. Our lives, Lord, have become battlefields of sensation and pleasure.
It's creation versus the world.
It's discipline versus dopamine.
It's obedience to you, God, versus dependence on the world.
The eternity of your kingdom,
or the evaporating scams & 10-minute thrills of the world.
And the things that thrill us kill us.
The things that thrill us kill us.
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(1 John 2:15-19)