Real
love is exactly the opposite of lust. Lusting after strangers or anyone other
than who we are married is being disrespectful to the purity of that person and
to the purity of ourselves. No one else’s body belongs to us except for the
person we are married to. Real love is something we learn from our spiritual
growth with God. Love is a verb, not a feeling. To love someone means to
actually sacrifice something of ourselves without asking for anything in
return. Without God we cannot love others in the proper ways.
When we carry around the wrong
attitude that we can have sex with whomever we please whenever we please
(dating) we completely lose the true meaning of what love is. We have no right
to step over the boundaries into someone else’s territory and have sex with
another person, even if they say it is ok.
Love is not someone giving us
attention (flirting) and making us feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Love is not
desire, yearning, or lust. Love is not adultery, looking at porn, receiving
goggle eyes from the guys at the office, or having an affair with your
secretary. The feeling we get from these things is euphoria mixed with lust and
desire. It is called sexual temptation in the bible and God tells us to flee
from sexual temptations so we don’t give in to it.
This is where the problem begins.
Many people don’t run from this kind of temptation because it “feels” too good
to run. They enter into a emotional and sexual relationship that may last two
days or two years, but the likelihood that it will prepare you for commitment
to marriage or that it will do any good for your emotional stability for
withstanding marriage is practically nil.
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