A man married a woman he felt he couldn’t live without, five
years into the marriage and all they had was routine and nothing else. Two more years and they were divorcing citing
they had irreconcilable differences as the cause.
After a bit of nosing around, it become apparent they did not love each
other anymore. They both wanted a fresh
start.
These two were
inseparable, couldn’t keep their hands off each other but they said, the
passion wasn’t there anymore; they just did not want each other again. Was it love that motivated them to get
married or was it lust? I leave that for you to decide.
Back to 1 Corinthians
13:8-13, it says, ‘Love never faileth: but whether there be
prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there
be tongues, they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge, it shall be done away....... For we know in part, but
when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done
away.......... But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest
of these is love’
Love is complete and perfect, the bible says, and it says
above everything else love is the greatest of all. We all know in part and we sometimes also
love in part.
Love is not passion either is it lust. We can’t fall in passion and lust and hope to
sustain the relationship. Lust will
consume and so will passion. Love will
keep you sturdy and selfless. Whiles
lust will make you take and take, love will make you give and give and find joy
in giving.
The bible says in 2 Samuel 11 that when it was the time that
kings went for battle, David stayed behind and
one day decided to look down his window at a woman taking a bath. The bible says David found the woman to be beautiful
and he wanted her so he sent someone to go and find out who she was. It was reported back to him that the woman
was someone’s wife but David still wanted her nonetheless , so he sent word to bring the woman and he slept with her and later sent her home. The woman became pregnant so David had the
woman’s husband killed, and took her as his.
David was one of the greatest kings of Israel and a
worshipper of God. He wrote most of the
psalms. He was a man that had a deep
relationship with God to the point where God called him a man after His heart,
yet when it came to women, David had a big appetite. As close as he was with God, he still
couldn’t control his lust for women. An intense desire for more and more women had its grip
on him and he couldn’t shake it off.
Love did not move David to take a woman that was someone’s
wife. The bible says that love does not seek its own, it protects and
preserves. Love did not push David
to kill a man so he could have his wife because the bible says love does not think
evil or plot someone’s hurt.
I believe that as great as David was, we ought to
know that greatness will not stop you from falling into lustful sins with someone. David was supposed to go to war, but he
stayed behind and that decision caused him to do something he shouldn’t
have. The battles you put off fighting
will cause you to fall. We all know in
part and so we can only see in part, it is only when we stay in God and
in love his way that we will stand and fight a good fight.
It is my prayer that in this battle against lust; we will all
stand in love so we can conquer lust.
The bible says in Ephesians 6 12 -13 we wrestle not against flesh and
blood but against powers. And having
done all the wrestling and fighting we should stand, stand our ground against
sin and everything that will make us fall, including lust.
Let us therefore take our lessons from David today and I
pray that the Lord will keep us standing in him always in Jesus’ name.
WRITTEN BY ABA DADSON
WRITTEN BY ABA DADSON
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