Leonard Ravenhill

The flesh is always itching, and no amount of Gold Bond will help. There are numerous ways humans seek to scratch the itch, and the fight I want to pick is not primarily with the backscratcher or the ointment, it is with the itch itself. The flesh’s itch is the itch for gratification.  Although God made us to be satisfied, delighted, even overjoyed, we decided that we want to be satisfied by anything other than Him. We don’t mind using aspects of Who He is to gratify us; but we don’t want just Him, only Him, nothing but Him. Human nature is such that it is always seeking ways to be satisfied, soothed, petted, and coddled. We itch for appeasement, pleasure, and self-satisfaction. The itch should simply be called “selfishness.”  [Read more…] about Scratching the Itch