Lust is a powerful tool of the enemy and it is in total opposition of love. While love is content, lust is insatiable. It is the bottomless pit of longings unmet. The more you have a fill of it, the more you crave and desire for it. Not only does it create more longing, but it further breeds all the other tools set to destroy marriages--lies, anger, frustration, dissatisfaction, bitterness, resentment. Yes, the enemy uses lust to create a desire, a desire leading you to be deceived. Deception leads to disobedience and this leads to death--spiritual death, separating us from God. I should know, I took the bait. I bore the mark of Eve. I bit the forbidden fruit and it led me nowhere but to a vicious, endless cycle of discontent and emptiness, a separation from the Lord that left me bereft, astray and broken. Until I got tired and surrendered all to Jesus. I realized His unconditional love for a sinner like me and He has proven it on the cross. I was unworthy but He called me worthy, taking the penalty of my sin for me. I was a sinner yet He loved me with a love that knows no conditions, no bounds, no limits. I held on to His promises and He delivered without fail. Peace, contentment and gratefulness found their way into my heart. Jesus filled me with love to the brim that there weren't any more room for lust. No more thirsting the day He found me and I accepted the Living Water in me.
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Lord, I've been deceived into thinking that worldly things are the answers to my unmet longings, the fix to my thirst for satisfaction and the fill to the void within me. I have been trapped in what seemed like an endless cycle of illusions, regret, discontent, anger, lies and lust. All these have led me to further emptiness and brokenness. And when I'd feel such, I'd fall back into the same circuit. When I got tired of it all, I was too proud to call Your name and in the rare times I did, I bargained with You, refusing to give up my very human dependence. But You waited on me, certain I would come home to You. Thank You for waiting Father. Thank You opening my eyes, for redeeming me from my biggest crime, untangling me from the earthly desires, taking me out of the snare of the fiend, freeing me from the burden of guilt, forgiving me for my sins. Set my eyes and my heart on my loved one and open it to thrill and exhilaration of our love. Teach me to keep my eyes on Your Word, to trust in Your provisions of all that I would need, your promises of peace and an enriched life, to be grateful for everything You have already given me, to be always reminded of Your unconditional love and to fully accept the offer of the best life in the world, a life with You. Amen.
~~The world is passing away, and also its lust; but the one who does the will of God lives forever. -- 1 John 2:17
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Lord, I've been deceived into thinking that worldly things are the answers to my unmet longings, the fix to my thirst for satisfaction and the fill to the void within me. I have been trapped in what seemed like an endless cycle of illusions, regret, discontent, anger, lies and lust. All these have led me to further emptiness and brokenness. And when I'd feel such, I'd fall back into the same circuit. When I got tired of it all, I was too proud to call Your name and in the rare times I did, I bargained with You, refusing to give up my very human dependence. But You waited on me, certain I would come home to You. Thank You for waiting Father. Thank You opening my eyes, for redeeming me from my biggest crime, untangling me from the earthly desires, taking me out of the snare of the fiend, freeing me from the burden of guilt, forgiving me for my sins. Set my eyes and my heart on my loved one and open it to thrill and exhilaration of our love. Teach me to keep my eyes on Your Word, to trust in Your provisions of all that I would need, your promises of peace and an enriched life, to be grateful for everything You have already given me, to be always reminded of Your unconditional love and to fully accept the offer of the best life in the world, a life with You. Amen.
~~The world is passing away, and also its lust; but the one who does the will of God lives forever. -- 1 John 2:17