Lust tells the lie, “It’s exciting.” I remember an accountant whose life was extremely boring. He worked nine to five, took a sack lunch every day, and was routinely home by 5:15. However, he believed lust was exciting.
He looked at women, both real and in images, to give himself some excitement in life. He created these images to say, “I am exciting,” and he believed it. There is truth to the statement, “Lust is exciting.” You get a chemical brain buzz when you engage in risk that is exciting, or even when engaging in the illicitness of what you are looking at. This reaction can chemically alter your mood. However, what lust doesn’t tell you is that after the exciting chemical buzz of acting out, you will fall into a downer of consequences. You will experience the fear of getting caught, have self-hatred, and feel shameful and guilty.
Not only do you feel such lows after you have lusted, but it hits you again when you see or kiss your wife, or when your kids hug you and tell you how much they love you. You begin to have a hard time letting love in because in your head you hear, “If they only knew what I was really like.” The aftertaste of lust is huge.
When you hear lust telling you how exciting it is, you know it is really lying. The initial excitement is multiplied in future consequences. If you are seeking excitement in your life, there are other legitimate means to do it. You don’t have to fall into the trap of lust to have excitement in your life.