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Lust Is the Opposite of Love (1 John 2: 16-17)

Lust is the power of desiring things that are not from God.

You Lust when you have pleasure in something that does not line up with the will of God, partaking in the pleasures of unrighteousness. 

Apostle John taught us in his first epistle that our lusts do not come from God but from the world and he continued to remind us that the world and its desires (lusts) pass away, whereas the man who does the will of God lives forever.  

“For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.

And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.” (1 John 2: 16-17). 

Lust of worldly things and the love of God cannot co-exit. 

When you lust you want to please yourself only and this will lead you to fulfill your own desires no matter if this would harm your body, which is the temple of God, or harm the people around you and make them stumble.

To be a true Christian united with Jesus Christ is marked by holy living, holy love and focusing on how one gives oneself to the other, and not to please oneself.

Lust is the opposite of love.

Let us read together the first Epistle of St. Peter, chapter one, verses twenty-two and twenty-three, “Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever” (1peter 1:22-23).

Amen

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