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# Needs and Desires
- URL: https://amemamem.com.br/en/needs-and-desires/
- Published: 2021-11-12T00:35:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-09T21:46:17.000Z
- Description: Introduction: This is an incomplete and unfinished work, just like us today.
- Author: Airton Humber
- Tags: #en, #de-necessidades-e-desejos

**Introduction**  
This is an incomplete and unfinished work, just like us today.  
It will be completed by the fullness of the one who fills all things, in any and every circumstance.  
Until then, here each person can add their own perceptions, and draw their own conclusions.

**Needs and Desires**  
It is precious to notice the differences between our **needs** and our **desires**.  
We have made a great deal of confusion between the two, and we suffer for it.  
Our needs are limited, but our desires have no end.  
We always desire what we do not yet have; because when we have it, we no longer desire it.  
A need is everything whose lack makes our existence unviable; a desire is everything we want that is not necessary.  
Desire makes both our happiness and our blessedness unviable, remembering that happiness is the satisfaction that comes from external factors and blessedness from internal factors.  
For lack of deeper reflection, we are turning desires into needs and we become anguished in the pursuit of this insatiable satisfaction.

**How was desire born?**  
How did desire enter the world? How does desire reproduce? (Please, do not be put off by the language)  
In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve had all their needs fully met, and they lived very well; absolutely nothing was lacking for them.  
Until Eve listened to the serpent… Then she looks at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the text says: (Gen 3)  
When the woman saw that the tree was pleasing to the taste, attractive to the eyes and, besides that, **desirable** for obtaining discernment, she took some of its fruit, ate it…  
And all of us know the consequences of this first human desire.

**What produced this desire?**  
Right after Cain and Abel made their offerings to the Lord, we have this dialogue between the Lord and Cain: (Gen 4)  
The Lord said to Cain: Why are you furious? Why has your face fallen?  
If you do what is good, will you not be accepted? But if you do not, know that sin is crouching at the door; it desires to conquer you, but you must master it.  
From reading this passage we can deduce that:  
Sin is the origin of human desires  
Sin wants to conquer us, through desire, but we must rule over sin  
This kind of desire is always against us

**How does desire reproduce?**  
This may be a strong, controversial and strange statement. But let us move ahead to the apostle Paul, a man full of the Holy Spirit, and see how he speaks about this subject: (Rom 7)  
But sin produced in me every kind of covetous desire…  
… so that sin would show itself to be sin, it … would show itself to be extremely sinful… I was sold as a slave to sin.

And the confusion this causes: (He continues…)  
I do not understand what I do. For I do not do what I desire, but what I hate.  
…  
In this case, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.  
I know that nothing good dwells in me… Because I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.  
For what I do is not the good that I desire, but the evil that I do not want to do, this I keep on doing.  
Now, if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

**A conclusion**  
Eve was deceived when she desired something she already had, her likeness to the Creator.  
Thus sin entered the world, producing in us every kind of desire, and keeping us as slaves to our desires.  
But sin keeps imprisoning us through the deceptions of human desires, especially because we keep desiring what Jesus has already made available to all of us.  
By sending the Holy Spirit upon us, Jesus restored this condition of freedom to us, through his grace, which took away the power of sin.  
He gave us the freedom to choose no longer to seek to satisfy our burning desires, which have the power to enslave us.

**Salvation**  
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life has set me free from the law of sin and death.

**There is another kind of desire, of another origin**  
Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and feed on truth.  
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will satisfy the desires of your heart.  
Commit your way to the Lord, trust in him, and he will do the rest.

**Let there be light!**