"Come, let's make love all night, spend the night in ecstatic lovemaking!"
Proverbs 7:19
Ah! Got your attention. Proverbs 7 warns of the seductress. She's sweet, young, smells good, and beautiful. One indescretion shouldn't matter, many say. But, that makes all of the difference.
My young daughter asked me, "Daddy what is lust?" We were watching the movie "
Fireproof." A father was explaining God's standards compared to ours to his son, who was battling for his marriage. My daughter was geniunely curious about the question.
We've made no subject off limits with our young curious daughters; however, we don't give them too many details, only what is appropriate for their age. I told my daughter that "lust is looking at another who is not your wife or husband in way that you 'want them' or does not honor God." Lust is the same as adultery by God's standards.
If God's standards are so high, do we just blow them off? Or do we seek to understand his decrees and commands, so that we might live forever.
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