Leaving Lust


I want to address the issue of leaving lust.  Paul addressed this issue when he told us to, “Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity” (1 Timothy 5:2).

When you look at a woman lustfully you are assessing her packaging.  You’re looking solely at physical features: facial, body parts.  You have to reduce her to one dimensional to be able to lust.

What Paul is saying is to put each woman, regardless of age, into a relational context.  You doubtfully will lust after your mom or your sisters. 

You see them as complete three dimensional people.  You see them as mothers, sisters, believers, parents and so on.  You see them in a relational context.  Choose today to view each woman as a three dimensional person, spirit, soul and body.