Turtles and Armadillos-Being Greedy for God

Miles Johnson

MS, LPC

June 26, 2023

God made giant sequoias and weeping willows, turtles, and armadillos. He also created human beings. He made us different from other things. Turtles and armadillos are made with protective shells and coverings. These shells are designed to protect them from harmful things that may hurt them. Well, God didn't make us with protective outer shells. He made us with millions of nerve endings so that we could feel all the sensations of pain and pleasure. He made us vulnerable. He made us this way because these sensations of pleasure and pain encourage us to change. We should embrace the way that God made us and embrace change.

 God wants us to change and grow primarily in our relationship with Him. When we were infants, we drank our mothers’ milk. That was all that we could handle digestively. As we changed and grew, we could take baby food. Now as adults, we can digest just about anything. We changed, and our relationship with food matured. As Christians, we should aspire to change and mature similarly. We should want our relationship with God to change, grow and mature.

 God created us with myriad emotions. Greed is one of our emotions that is usually looked at as a negative emotion. This begs the question- Why did God give us the feeling of greed anyway?  The enemy often twists the emotion of greed into being greedy for possessions or perceived power, but God’s intent for this emotion is for us to want more of Him. Every day we are new creatures in Christ. We should want more of God, to walk and talk with Him more, to understand Him more, to spend more time with Him, to love Him more. We should aspire to embrace change and make plans to be greedy for God!

 Written by Miles Johnson MS, LPC, on this twenty-first day of June in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-three.