Hi Joe,
Eph 2:1 And you He made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and sins
v. 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
v. 3 Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
We have all been there, done that.
Ecc 3:10 I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.
v. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity(long duration, antiquity, futurity) into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Ecc 2:10 And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.
v. 11 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
So it's the way we all have gone, seeking after fleshly desires, only to find it all to be "vanity and a striving after wind."
It's like what you said,
We were given this imperfect, deceptive nature purposely so we would learn to despise the carnal heart/mind and yearn for Him to transform us through this process into spiritual Sons and daughters of the Perfect God.
mercy, peace, and love
Kat