I will be starting a landmark series from today based on the above title, it's an issue that will benefit you greatly. I wouldn't miss a bit if i were you. Share with friends and invite to partake of this amazing topic. Stay blessed and enjoy.
PART 1
There is more to these issues than meets the eye. I've by the grace of God put together a little something both from other sources and i pray it helps you understand what Love and lust really means and how it also affects young people.
Now, Love is more than what human senses can imagine or develop; it is beyond just "mutual feelings". Love is born of God and produced through our hearts.
Love and lust are the two most confused concepts in all cultures around the world. And yet, reams and reams of literature, inumerable works of art and scores of music have been created based on these two concepts.
(1 john 3vs16-19, 4vs7-9)
From the above passages, we discover that, Love is God and it is born only from Him; love is of life, our heart is its dwelling. "Feelings and affections" are just products of an established love.
Lust, on the other hand, is "A very strong desire/urge to have or enjoy something, this doesn't involve love."
This issue as it relates to young people is way too important to be toyed with. This is because It is at this stage that man is exposed to the DECISION as to which path He will tread, Love or Lust.
To begin with, while love is mainly a spiritual, emotional and mental feeling, lust is purely based on a physical need.
Unfortunately, this where most young people around the world trip; confusing a physical feeling of lust (as an attraction based on genuine emotions emanating from the heart and soul as love) leads many young people
to hurry and to marry in haste and regret later.
There are two major agents that affect lust. Every other thing will occur as a result of these two agents. They are:
1) Information
2) Associations.
These two agents influences whatever goes into your system, whether good or bad. For instance, the information
you get from the environment, family life, social life, and others will define how you live life. Information can either be news or facts which you see, hear or feel around you; it is meant to form something in you, either good or bad.
Information comes in to create a mentality which will, in turn, create an attitude that will either form your life or deform it (Luke 8:32).
If in fulfilling destiny, you happen to surround yourself with negative information and associations, then sorry to say, you'll never reach your end in one piece (Prov. 13:20, Psalms 1, 1st Cor. 15:33). Remember, "Evil communication (is what) corrupts good manners..."
To avoid lust taking over you, watch the company you keep and the information you download into your "system". Your tomorrow counts, don't sell it for a bottle of champagne. Don't sell your destiny out just for a few moments of pleasure. If you really love,then let everything happen in its time. Wait!
Don't sell your tomorrow just to satisfy the flesh today.
Love requires discipline and commitment while lust needs no such positive attributes to manifest. Love is focused on the growth, improvement and comfort of the person who is the object of love. On the other hand, lust is focused on the satisfaction of the self and that too, mainly of the physical kind; though it may not necessarily be physical alone.
Take a look at the story of Amnon and Tamar for instance (2nd Sam. 13:1-17). According to this story, we discover that information and association goes a long way in determining whether a person walks in lust or in love.
In verse 3-5, it was the evil counsel(information) that Amnon got from his companion/friend Jonadab (The subtile one), that let to what he did to Tamar.
Your association will either nurture or kill the seed of lust in you...
To Be Continued...
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