Only after receiving insight into the destiny of the people he was envying did he learn to be deeply satisfied with God. Asaph's problem was not that he was too full of desire to be satisfied with God. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling around with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. Honestly face the dark side of desire. While we are designed for desire, it is just as true that misdirected sexual passion poses a great threat to our well-being.
Sexual struggles are far more than skin-deep.
Sexual immorality involves the faulty direction of our depraved human heart that refuses to worship the God who made us. After all our foolish efforts to control our lives by worshiping the false god of sexual pleasure have failed, we must begin to see God as the only Person who can relieve the terror of our isolation with His powerful and good presence. He desires to draw us to Himself with the hope of joyful involvement and to rid us of our stubborn determination to survive on our own. We fear that we will find something or someone who will destroy us. Courage is required to face both the disappointments of our external world and the depravity of the dark regions of our hearts.