Deceitfulness of Lust

Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. (Pro 7:4-5)

As long as we are in the flesh, lust is probably the most subtle tool of the devil to fight for dominion over God’s children. The Bible doesn’t tell us that the devil and sin has been destroyed, instead as His children we have access to the God given strength and His Word to overcome (1 John 2:14). Jesus came to destroy the works of the enemy (1 John 3:8), but the enemy as of yet have not been done away with completely (Rev 20:10). Until that time, we can victoriously overcome by faith. The saddest thing is that lust is so deceitful that the sufferer is unaware of its destructive power until relationships and daily life is damaged.

And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD. (1Ch 15:15)

Faith is not about seeing victory than believing, faith is in the midst of the raging battle we take up authority of His Word and resist than victory comes. We ought to know sexual sin is against our own body (1 Cor 6:18), know also that God is zealous for our bodies to bear the testimony of God (1 Cor 6:19) in the midst of the crooked and perverse generation paid with a costly price of His Son’s life. If we ask God for the revelation that our bodies belong to Him and not our own, the usage of our physical being will then differ from the way the way the world thinks.

 Deliverance will come, but God want us to know if we are honest about our desire to leave the wallowing in the filth of lust. There is nothing too great that God cannot do in us, He has already provided the Way of escape (1 Cor 10:13, John 14:6). Escape is in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ, humbly and relentless abide in Him and we will find our freedom.