THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK - 6th JULY 2010


'Forbidden fruit creates many jams.',


Lust: desiring something in our hearts that we cannot have.

We can have desires for many things but when that desire is for something or someone forbidden it is lust.

Our hearts can lead us astray. Yes it’s true;

Proverbs 28:26 says “He who trusts in his own heart is a fool”

Jeremiah 7:23-24 says: “But this is what I commanded them saying ‘Obey My voice and I shall be your God and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you. Yet they did not obey or incline their ear but followed the counsels and dictates of their evil hearts and went backward and not forward”

We are new creations in Christ Jesus but this example from Jeremiah is good for us to learn from.

God’s guidance is for our good, v23“... that it may be well with you”

Lust is very dangerous. Firstly, in our hearts and thoughts, and sometimes results in dominating our behaviour. Then if desire is worked out in our life through our choices it will destroy and steal from us and others. Families and relationships can be destroyed, people crushed, trust lost, our own bodies damaged, hurt deep down within us, our witness voided and the hurt that comes from knowing we messed up and sinned against God.

John 10:10, Jesus says: “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.”

Ask the lord to help you know truth in your inward parts (Psalm 51:6).

Ask Him for the truth of the situation you find yourself in. Our desires can fog the truth.

Think about what you are thinking about. (Proverbs 23:7)

Be very careful your thoughts do not lead you astray but take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ(2 Corinthians 3:5).
Composed by : Jade Jordan