InSlaveryToChrist
Puritan Board Junior
"What is lusting?" This question has occurred to me a thousand times, yet I've never found a satisfying answer to it. "Why do I lust after people?", "What is it that so attracts my soul?", "Is it the shape of one's body?", "The shape of one's body-parts?" Has God so designed our mind that we're prone to lust after a certain kind of shapes or forms? I don't think so.
People don't lie, when having sex they say, "I WANT YOU! I WANT YOU!" That's the absolute truth about lusting. We desire something over ourselves. If we truly were satisfied with our own bodies, we would rather say, "I WANT MYSELF!" But what lusting is, is desiring to exchange one's own body to someone else's.
And here comes the reason why this is to be considered sin. Desiring to take someone's body is SELFISH. Lusting is SELFISH. Moreover, God wants us to be perfected by the work of patience that we should remain WANTING NOTHING (James 1:4). So, lusting or coveting goes greatly against this desire of God for us.
Now, if we were to bring the issue further, we could ponder why we would rather lust after women than men, or why rather men than women. In other words, why would we rather desire to have a woman's body than a men's body or the other way around? Frankly, I haven't given much thought it, but it's pretty evident to me from seeing how the world goes, that people want to be different, men want to be women and women want to be men. It's something they are fanatic about, something they've never experienced. So, that's my assumption why this would be the case.
I hope this helped you in as much as it helped me! Please, do share your own thoughts on this!
Edit: I didn't notice until now how I limited the wide topic, "What is lusting?", to a definition of lusting after someone and not someTHING.
People don't lie, when having sex they say, "I WANT YOU! I WANT YOU!" That's the absolute truth about lusting. We desire something over ourselves. If we truly were satisfied with our own bodies, we would rather say, "I WANT MYSELF!" But what lusting is, is desiring to exchange one's own body to someone else's.
And here comes the reason why this is to be considered sin. Desiring to take someone's body is SELFISH. Lusting is SELFISH. Moreover, God wants us to be perfected by the work of patience that we should remain WANTING NOTHING (James 1:4). So, lusting or coveting goes greatly against this desire of God for us.
Now, if we were to bring the issue further, we could ponder why we would rather lust after women than men, or why rather men than women. In other words, why would we rather desire to have a woman's body than a men's body or the other way around? Frankly, I haven't given much thought it, but it's pretty evident to me from seeing how the world goes, that people want to be different, men want to be women and women want to be men. It's something they are fanatic about, something they've never experienced. So, that's my assumption why this would be the case.
I hope this helped you in as much as it helped me! Please, do share your own thoughts on this!
Edit: I didn't notice until now how I limited the wide topic, "What is lusting?", to a definition of lusting after someone and not someTHING.
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Sorry, but I can't remember ever hearing something so bizarre in my entire life 
