Tim Mackie

But that doesn't mean that the things in themselves are bad.

Gold isn't bad in and of itself.

That's right.

It's just in that context, in that relationship that he was in with God, that was the wrong thing to desire.

So it's not even that the desire was inappropriate.

It was an inappropriate object of desire in that moment for him.

So when I say this word is often used to inappropriate desire, I'm just qualifying to say that the desire is actually for something that's cool.

Gold and beautiful clothes.

It's beautiful, it's shiny, it's valuable.

But he was told hands off and his desire became a disordered inappropriate one.

However, there are uses of both of these words

to refer to positive objects of desire.

So this is really interesting.

Psalm 10, the ta'ava, that's our craving word, the ta'ava of the afflicted one you have heard, O Yahweh, you will make their heart secure.

You will listen and render judgment for the orphan and for the oppressed.

so that mere mortals of the earth no longer cause terror.

Yeah.

In this case, it's they're robbed, they're cheated in the courts, they have things stolen from them by people more powerful.

So they're craving for things to be made right.

Yeah.