I was admiring a female friend facebook photo in my heart, when the Holy Spirit cautioned me not to let love turn to lust in my heart because I was over admiring; then I withdrew. What can make love turn to lust? What are the ramifications where love can turn to lust? What are the causes of love turning to lust. Love can turn to lust when what make you love the person or thing is no more of interest to you but you still want to have relationship with the person, so you look for other thing to keep the relationship going. For example, if you have a friend you love dearly because of his/her character, love will become lust if you are not looking at the character and you are now looking at worldly things like money, beauty, position or even sex to keep the relationship going. You don’t even mind if your friend character goes haywire; once you see other things that make you happy, you continue the relationship. We can therefore attribute lust to be of the flesh and love to be of the spirit; once the love you are having for someone is not having a single feature of charity (LOVE), then it is lust! Here are the features of love, check your heart, are you in true love?
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 New International Version (NIV)
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
The opposite of above are the feature of lust that is, lust is not patient, in the sense that “I want to have it now” statement and so on. Love can become lust in marriage when the only thing a couple do together is sex. That is a big lust of highest order, is that the primary reason for getting married, love became lust. We Christians need to pray against asmodee the spirit of lust and sexual sins.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Lust is an emotion or feeling of intense desire in the body. The lust can take any form such as the lust for knowledge, the lust for sex or the lust for power. It can take such mundane forms as the lust for food as distinct from the need for food. Lust is a psychological force producing intense wanting for an object, or circumstance fulfilling the emotion.[1]
Love is an intense feeling of affection and care towards another person. It is a profound and caring attraction. On the other hand, lust is a strong desire of a sexual nature.
Definition: Love has An intense feeling of deep affection while lust has intense desire or craving for gratification; when contrasted with love, lust usually means sexual desire.
Symptoms: Love: Faithfulness, loyalty, confidence. Willingness to make sacrifices for another. Working at settling differences; Able to compromise so that either both win or at least give the other person's opinion a chance.
Lust: Desire, passion, acquisitiveness, intense emotions.
Person to Person- Love: Commitment to another. Genuine intentions. Think about other person's feelings before acting.
LUST: Enjoyment of a short-term, mutually pleasurable relationship.
Feels like- LOVE :A deep affection, contentment, confidence. Partners communicate and negotiate appropriate expectations. Requires a lot of selflessness and polite assertiveness. You are loving your best friend.
LUST: Passion, joyousness, strong desire, intense and sometimes difficult feelings of need.
Result – LOVE: Security, peace, a solid partnership which can provide the ideal atmosphere to raise confident, secure children.
LUST: Unsatisfied lust results in sexual frustration, increased religiosity and superstition, emotional rigidity. Lust satisfied in a mutually beneficial way results in pleasure, creativity, passion, zest for life.
Time Period - LOVE It will deepen with the passage of time.
LUST: Highly variable -- it may deepen or dissipate with the passage of time.
Commitment = LOVE This feeling may continue throughout one's life. WHILE LUST is Temporary commitment that lasts only long enough to fulfill desire.
Bottom Line Love is unconditional, a commitment and the real deal.
Lust is Interested in only what can be done for self-pleasure; lust may develop into love, but it is lust until that time.
My references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lust
http://www.diffen.com/difference/Love_vs_Lust
Written by Gbadamosi Abiodun
A God chosen servant called for our generation to unveil the Truth - Jesus, His works, His ministries, His grace, passion and revelations.
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