LUST....

Just the word conjures a visceral reaction in most of us. 

One of my pet peeves about the way we have been exhorted to deal with things like lust, is that though we have been told not to do it, we have rarely been told HOW not to do it. The answer is normally, self-discipline, or knowing the Bible, or prayer, or some combination of all the above.

Here's one of my favorite questions: "How's that working for you?"

"If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics, and is no part of Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." 

CS Lewis