Lust has many friends and uses opportunities to introduce you to these friends on a fairly regular basis. One of these friends is the deception or illusion called control. Lust tells you, “It’s okay to lust or view images, porn, and fantasize because, after all, you can control how much, how long, and even what behaviors you do.”

Control is a lie on so many levels. Scripture tells us that lust is a seed (James 1:15). You can kill a seed by putting it in the light and not watering it, but you cannot stop a seed from growing. You can’t sit on it, yell at it, or in any other way keep it from growing once you’ve planted it.

Once you plant a lust seed and incubate it in your soul, you can’t stop this seed from growing into sin and death. Lust tells you you’re in control in order for it to grow and get your life out of control.

You can’t stop a weed or a tree from growing. You can kill it or chop it down, but you can’t keep it from growing. Never believe the lie that somehow you are in control of lust. This lie will keep you sick and get you sicker than you ever imagined. If lust says you can control it, stop the thought and engage in the tips in this book to destroy it before it takes root. You cannot control lust if you feed it. However, you can destroy lust by starving it.