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SEX: the pleasure, the companionship, the excitement, the deep longing, the drive, the desire to be held…
…the LUST, the taste, the hunger, the craving, the consuming passion…
…the chase that never ends…
…the ADDICTION...
…the fire…
Quenching the Flames of Hell
Who can adequately describe the hell of living in the spirit of lust? To be driven with a whip but never satisfied… To commit humiliating and degrading acts… To strive with all one’s heart for some experience and then once it has been accomplished, find it empty and unsatisfying… To have one’s thinking become dark, evil, and insane… to hurt loved ones again and again… To find oneself drifting further and further away from God… Anyone who has lived this kind of life knows more about the flames of hell than he may realize.
Lustful living is hellish living. Again, lust is demanding and never satisfied. The more one feeds the beast, the more ravenous it becomes. Perhaps the allergic reaction to poison ivy would illustrate the intense craving for immorality some are consumed by. The body becomes covered with a rash, which incites intense itching. If the person scratches the infected area, he risks the possibility of making it worse and spreading it to other parts of his body. If he does not scratch it, he feels as though he might go insane! Yet, even if he grated it with a metal file, a few minutes later it would itch all the more.
(Steve Gallagher’s book At the Altar of Sexual Idolatry)
How then do we quench this hungering BEAST?
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