Lust is defined as a passionate desire for something.

Lust of the sole eventually becomes lust of the heart. Provisioning the heart for a deeper evil, or a greater righteousness. And even empowering it to dictate over the soul.

I John 2:16

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

We have a natural yearning, and even a lust to understand the things of God. But because we have not conquered our feelings we are easily guided into the direction of everything that looks like God, because it makes us feel good.

The purpose of religion is to point you away from the truth while at the same time making you believe that you found it. and once we’ve fallen into the trap, we embrace the lie with everything that we have, because the truth is now too uncomfortable to fathom. Now we will only accept something that makes us feel as good as the lie does.

From the moment that we exit the womb we’re on a journey…a journey to discover who we were configured to be. Or who we will choose to become. A journey that is first motivated by the aspirations of the sole; having only two perspectives. Happy and sad; content and discontent.

In the beginning these are all we know. The self serving ways of our emotions. What we like and what we dislike. And the elevation of darkness or light are rapidly put into the motion of motivating the heart as to which path it will embrace.

And once elevated, the heart will dictate over every aspiration of the sole, because that’s where it gained its empowerment.

The heart of stone spoken of in Ezekiel 36:26 is now born

Always embracing the endeavors of self, it is able to disavow and disregard any and all levels of truth that contradicts its own insight. This is the natural path of man.

This is why Psalms 51:5 told us 5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. But the indwelling of His Holy Spirit empowers us to rise above the works of the flesh. Provided that we choose the pathway out of the endeavors of the self serving heart.

Jeremiah 17:9-10 says

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

BLESSED BY DIVISION

IN ALL HONESTY, the unity in the spirit of God that we profess within the fellowships just isn’t there. But notice that I said the unity of the spirit. We do in fact have a unity, but too often it is a unity in things contrary to the will of God. Mathew 10:34-36 says

34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household

The reality of a walk with God often requires that we accept the need to disavow any allegiance with people who are of a contrary spirit in the presence of God. Even though this is a clear message, it can be much harder to do than we think, but if we allow ourselves to be attentive to the verse of Psalms 1:1-3 we will surely obtain the ability to overcome the bondages of a heart of wayward endeavors