"But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death." (James 1.14-15) From an early age we sinners have learned to allow our normal human desires to become the god we serve. Our materialistic and permissive society helps us to make these desires lord over us. Each one of us is tempted to fulfill our own desires with people and things and excesses that are in disobedience to God. God wants to, and can, meet all of our desires in accordance to His will and in His time as we learn to obey Him. By the power and work of the cross the lordship of our desires is broken and Jesus is made Lord of our desires. Our desire for Jesus overrules the desires of the flesh. As we learn to walk in the Spirit and make God our God, our desires are naturalized again, even though their attraction to be satisfied by sin will not be fully removed until we get those new bodies when our redemption is complete. So let us grow in our desire for Jesus so that the lures and enticements that call our desires to lord it over us will be put in place by our submission to the our Lord Jesus Christ. Be in the Word of God and in the presence of God regularly and learn to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit. Flee those lust of the flesh. Run to Jesus. Put away those false intimacies of the mind, those vain imaginations, and let your mind be transformed by the Word of truth.
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