Fresh Bread 2007 # 014
WHEN DOES
“LUST”
TURN INTO
“LOVE”?
 
As we ponder this question, we usually think about Love and marriage. God has a purpose for all things.
The initial attraction men and women have for each other is often placed in the category of “lust” which the dictionary describes as to yearn,
desire, long for, hunger for. It doesn’t have to be used as a bad word. It serves God’s purpose for creation and multiplication of His people.
It works like two unexplainable magnets attracting and connecting to each other. There is a type of chemistry that they don’t feel for everyone, just a special someone.
Even our Lord lusts after us in this sense. He desires that Spiritual magnetic connection with His creation, Bride, and people.
FIRST ATTRACTION
Surely our first attraction toward God is the day our eyes are opened to His beauty and we are drawn to everything we see in Him. For a season we are so infatuated (obsessed, lovesick, besotted, taken, smitten) by Him that we have eyes for no one else. It’s a divine romance we must delight in and never forget.
TRUE LOVE GROWS
Requires Commitment
  
But True Love grows. And the more we nurture our love for God and seek to know Him better every day of our life…it isn’t long before the things of the world that we use to lust after, become strangely dim compared to Him.
He is the Faithful One who will never leave us nor forsake us, through good times and bad.
And somewhere during this life-time romance, we grow from desiring Him for what He gives us in the natural to cherishing our secret times with Him…where He pours out His confirmation of Love…and our desire becomes to just BE with Him.
He has become Lord of all!
Yes, He lusted for us. And when we saw how much He cared, we began to care, too. But, through time, experience, knowledge and fellowship with Him, our love continued to grow stronger and stronger…until this initial “lust”…turned into:
TRUE MATURE LOVE
Deep _ Abiding _ Secure _ Eternal
Walk About
Now it would be good to do a “Walk-About” on the word “lust”. Read your concordance. Yes, there are always two meanings to a word.
We can either lust after temporary, worldly things,
Or
We can seek God and His eternal commitment to us.
The one who wants Covenant with us.
We can lust after other gods, but there is only One True God. And, remember, we will grow more and more to be like the one we choose. Both call out to us. God and the world and even Satan. Which will we be attracted to the most? Hopefully…the One who cared enough to die in our place and prepare a home for us in Heaven with Him one day.
  
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