The reality of lust...

Well well... in line of so many posts on quite a few blogs which i read abt porn, peeping toms, mini skirts... i can categorize them all under 1 roof: LUST!

A scientific person i am, i will start with the basic definition of lust. Lust is nt abt watching porn only, but it is abt looking at the opposite gender (girls) and having filithy thoughts in our minds of erm erm....

Unfortunately, lust is a prob that many ppl face... girls included as well... Definitely, the world always like to dilute the term lust, so we hear things like he/she is my eye candy, etc.... I am not a man of steel (superman), and i do nt possess a mind and heart of steel in order to nt have a liking at times towards girls... In fact, i was quite glad when i have a crush on a girl, because it goes to show that i'm wired correctly...

As a guy, infatuations are common, whereby u have a stronger feeling towards a girl compared to other girls, thats why u're a male... But when u start to ogle at the girl, with all those dirty thoughts generated in ur mind, it becomes lust. Definitely, i struggle with lust everyday of my life, especially with that infamous FBT shorts, super mini skirts and modifications to the school uniform...

I fight lust with both spiritual and practical tools... Both must come together for an effective approach... On the spiritual side, reading the Word of God renews the mind, inspires willpower and faith to abstain lust... Praying keeps ur mind focused on God rather than girls, seminars and conferences to equip with latest fighting techniques to combat lust... On the practical side, there's much to be done... Shifting your computer out is a smart move, keeping urself occupied with work can be an approach. For me, i'll rather stay out of home to study so that i wun be facing the computer alone at home (with no one watching)

When outside, it is akin to a warzone... Bullets of temptations shoot all over the shop to kill you with all the lacy dressing and shorts... Grenades of PDA can blind ur eyes when there are couples smooching each other... Artillery shells of provocative advertisments and magazines of FHM bombard u... Yet, u are equipped with more to fight back, the word of God as ur ultimate AK-47/M4A1/SAR 21, the Holy Spirit with ur common sense to turn ur eyes away as ur bullet proof Kevlar to shield the damage... and of course, intensive prayers that work as Holy Air Strike (HAS) or weapon of mass destruction (WMD) to NUKE satan's tools of lust back to hell where it belongs...

Sigh... easier said then done some may say... Well... it's a tough and small start, but it has to begin somewhere if u wanna see urself as a man after the very presence and heart of God... U will definitely stumble and fall many times.... thats why we need to constantly renew our covenant with God and ask for daily bread + clensing of the blood of the Lamb... Yet despite all the grace that abounds us when we fall into lust, we cannot take grace for granted... I believe that the grace of God is here for us when we fall but choose to confess our mistakes, repent and stand tall like a man and fight till the end.... Should we choose to fall time and yet again into lust, taking God's grace for granted, we're jus tampling Jesus under our foot (Hebrews 10:29) and incur God's wrath...

Ultimately, the thing which encourages me the most is from 1 Peter 5:9 where it says: Resist the devil, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings. Everytime when i feel that i'm abt to give up, i thought abt my brothers kitkatbar, snuffy, Cornelius fighting the same battle of lust... and i told myself, shld i give up, i nt only let God down, let myself down, but let my comrades down as well... While they're fighting it, I shld stand beside them and fight with them till the end of this hectic life....

A true man is one who executes self discipline, has control over his actions by not acting impulsively, and is able to withstand all forms of punishment without yielding.... Fight ON!

Signed Vaze