What the Bible says about Grass is Always Greener Yearnings
(From Forerunner Commentary)

1 John 2:15-16 These verses provide a basic guideline for avoiding entrapment by this alluring heart of the Babylonish system. Since this system has its basis in human nature, it feeds right into the desires for frequent change and variety of experience as the answers to fulfillment in life. The Bible, however, clearly reveals God drawing His children into His oneness, which is diametrically opposed to the world's system. It promotes fulfillment in material things, excitement, gratification of the flesh, and variety of religious experience. Its major fruits are easily seen in the world around us as confusion of purpose, competition, disharmony, disunity, separation from each other and God, and death. The result is that this world is not a happy place to live in. None of these factors can give a lasting sense of peace, fulfillment, and abundant living because none of them harmonizes with the purpose of God. They can only produce a temporary burst of emotional well-being or satisfaction. God instructed Israel often and in many ways against this proclivity. They were to seek only Him in His only habitation in Jerusalem. Israel, though, is disastrously curious and incautious and filled with discontented, unsettled, impatient, "grass is always greener" yearnings. John W. Ritenbaugh The Beast and Babylon (Part Seven): How Can Israel Be the Great Whore? Related Topics: "Grass is always greener" disease | Babylonish System | Competition | Confusion of Purpose | Discontent | Disharmony | Disunity | Excitement | Grass is Always Greener Yearnings | Gratification of the Flesh | Satisfaction | Variety of Experience | Variety, Drive for

 

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