The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.
—1 John 2:17
Love can last forever when it is cherished and nurtured. Love is of God and He is eternal.
But lust is fickle. Feeding lust doesn't fulfill it but makes it hungrier. It is never satisfied. It is always looking for something new to fill its appetite. Lust divides a man from his wife quicker than anything else I can think of - because lust only takes a moment to conceive!
Any man who has ever succumbed to lust can tell you that it does not build up but it destroys. It will never leave you feeling better, fulfilled or more of a man. Lust has left many men in its wake feeling like a failure, empty, wondering what it will take to satisfy that uncontrollable physical desire.
And any woman married to a man with lust in his heart will tell you that it destroys their intimacy, brings a brutal type of secret pain to her, leaving her feeling degraded and abused.
TODAY’S DARE
End it now. Identify every object of lust in your life and remove it. Repent over it. Single out every lie you’ve swallowed in pursuing forbidden pleasure and reject it. Lust cannot be allowed to live, not even in a back bedroom. It must be killed and destroyed — today — and replaced with the sure promises of God and a heart filled with His perfect love for your wife.
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