Lust, Love - Whats the difference?

[wardpossy]

What is LUST?
"Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.
1 Peter 2:11
Lust is the desire for something or someone. It is sinful longing. An inward sin which leads to the falling away from God.
What is LOVE?
Love is patient and kind....Love does not demand its own way
(1 Corinthians 13: 4-5)
"Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace..."
2 Timothy 2:22

What does the Bible Have to say about Lust?
"It teaches us to say 'NO' to ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controled, upright, and godly lives in this present age."
Titus 2:12

Your eye is a lamp for your body. A pure eye lets sunshine into your soul. But an evil eye shuts out the light and plunges you into darkness.
Luke 11:34

Lust is not just the sexual. It is possible to lust for many things such as power, wealth, and material things. However,Sexual or material, when lust is allowed to take up residence in our mind, it tends to consume our thoughts, and the light of God is pushed aside. We should fill our heart and mind with purity and goodness slowly driving lust away.
Lust is not just the sexual. It is possible to lust for many things such as power, wealth, and material things. However,Sexual or material, when lust is allowed to take up residence in our mind, it tends to consume our thoughts, and the light of God is pushed aside. We should fill our heart and mind with purity and goodness slowly driving lust away.
Final Words of Wisdom:
Lust is not just the sexual. It is possible to lust for many things such as power, wealth, and material things. However,Sexual or material, when lust is allowed to take up residence in our mind, it tends to consume our thoughts, and the light of God is pushed aside. We should fill our heart and mind with purity and goodness slowly driving lust away.
Final Words of Wisdom:
Lust is not just the sexual. It is possible to lust for many things such as power, wealth, and material things. However,Sexual or material, when lust is allowed to take up residence in our mind, it tends to consume our thoughts, and the light of God is pushed aside. We should fill our heart and mind with purity and goodness slowly driving lust away.

Warrior For Christ, Jeff

 

[Evee]

Its really really tricky and hard to distinguish at times.
When you get older it is easier but you still can be fooled.

 

[brightlights]

The difference between lust and love is huge when Christ shows us the difference. Otherwise, we are easily confused. I was consumed by lust for a good part of my life but am now free. Praise Jesus for that.

 

[Evee]

The difference between lust and love is huge when Christ shows us the difference. Otherwise, we are easily confused. I was consumed by lust for a good part of my life but am now free. Praise Jesus for that.

Yes Praise Jesus.
Then you are only 17 you have your whole life ahead of you.
Just funning you.
Yes lust is so controlling and all jokes aside I am glad you overcome with the help of God.

 

[praying]

Lust, Love - Whats the difference?

Lights on and lights off

Somtimes I see these thread ttiles and randoms thoughts just pop into my mind. Aww come on you know someone else thought it too.

 

[Evee]

Lust, Love - Whats the difference?

Lights on and lights off

Somtimes I see these thread ttiles and randoms thoughts just popinto my mind. Aww come on you know someone else thought it too.

Yes I sometimes just get these laughing spells.
laughter is good.

 

[Gracchus]

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There is some confusion brought on by using the same word for different meanings.

Some folks, women especially, would rather say "I fell in love." than "I got horny." Or we might hear one spouse say to another, "I don't love you any more."

Some folks think love is a tender feeling, an emotion.

There is however something that is love that cannot really be anything else.

KJV John 13:34

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

We can't help how we feel, but we can choose how we act. Love is an act of will. It is what we do, oftentimes in spite of what we feel. It is the blow withheld, the sacrifice of one's own interest for the interest of another without expectation of recompense. It is changing dirty diapers and tying shoelaces. It is giving a handout to a homeless person, knowing he might just spend it on booze, giving him the opportunity of spending it on food or shelter.

KJV Luke 6:30

Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

It's doing the right thing even when it's going to get you in trouble. It's facing up when you want to run and hide. It is acknowleging that no truly good deed goes unpunished, but doing the good deed anyway. If it were easy to do good the world would be a different, much better place.

Love underlies all virtue, it is art for the sake of art.

"The road to hell," it has been said, "is paved with good intentions." The morally lazy, sneer at "do-gooders" and pretend to suppose this to mean that attempts at virtue are useless, even counter-productive. But that pavement is composed of discarded good intentions that became just a little too uncomfortable and troublesome in "the real world." After all, we have to look out for ourselves first, that is only common sense. So we turn our faces away from injustice and cruelty and poverty, ignore the evil it would be inconvenient to denounce, and pretend we don't see the evil we condone by our silence.

Beware, for truth is the light of heaven and the fire of hell.

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[brightlights]

Wow Gracchus, nice.

 

[Chajara]

Meh. I think of lust as when people have one night stands, and base their sexual actions and thoughts solely on "Hey, he's hot" or "Man, I've never seen her before. She's gorgeous." Love, on the other hand, is having a relationship and sticking together through thick and thin, even when the sex stinks or you're fighting or whatever. Love is realizing that you don't always have to /like/ each other, but when the fight's over and you're standing back to back with your arms crossed, you realize "Hey... I still love that person who enrages me so much, even if I want nothing more than to punch him in the face." (My boyfriend and I just went through one of those periods.) That's my opinion on it, anyhow

 

[Jetgirl]

Lust is when you think they're hot.



Love is when you still think they're hot 2 years and twenty pounds later, when they have a runny nose and are wrapped up with a hot water bottle on the couch surrounded by used tissue and looking like a ruffled hedgehog.

 

[GreenDragon]

I saw an extremely interesting indy movie yesterday called "What the bleep do we know?". It was mainly about quantum mechanics, but it did have a part on emotion. An interesting point of view on love they had is that it is simply an addiction to the raw emotions brought on by being around a certain person. In other words, when you are around this person, you feel certain emotions and you like that, so you want more and more of it; this addiction is called love.

As for lust, I really have no idea what that is. People talk about it all the time, but I still don't really know what it is

 

[Lokisdottir]

Lust is when you think they're hot.



Love is when you still think they're hot 2 years and twenty pounds later, when they have a runny nose and are wrapped up with a hot water bottle on the couch surrounded by used tissue and looking like a ruffled hedgehog.

Been there, done that, couldn't agree more. (Actually it's 3 years and thirty pounds later!)

 

[Blackmarch]

Lust is the desire for an object, Love is the self sacrificing desire that makes one want to improve themselves for another, to also improve and help another above the desires for yourself.

 

[Magisterium]

Lust and love (in the context of faith) are easliy distinguished. Both are related to desire of someone or something. The difference is between giving and taking. Lust is about taking. Lust is concerned only with one's own gratification (as in lustful desires of the flesh). Love on the other hand is made manifest in the act of giving and serving (as in a Father's love of his children).

It is also noteworthy that Sacred Scripture also warns against the Love of material possessions and worldly things as well as lusting after these things.

 

[Blackmarch]

I like that, good comment.

 

[GreenDragon]

Lust and love (in the context of faith) are easliy distinguished. Both are related to desire of someone or something. The difference is between giving and taking. Lust is about taking. Lust is concerned only with one's own gratification (as in lustful desires of the flesh). Love on the other hand is made manifest in the act of giving and serving (as in a Father's love of his children).

It is also noteworthy that Sacred Scripture also warns against the Love of material possessions and worldly things as well as lusting after these things.

Let's take an example of these "lustful desires of the flesh": passionate kissing. If you are doing it to please both you and the other person, is it lustful or loving?

 

[sculpturegirl]

Good post, OP!! I have often thought that lust is an unhealthy, excessive desire for those things which God has not given you. And that the persuing of that desire would cause you to sin. Like you said, this could be sex, money, real-estate, shoes, booze, whatever has become your little "idol," so to say.

 

[Motus]

Lust is letting your base animalism control you. Love is letting God control you.

 

[Soc12]

I think it can be hard to distinguise between the two, especially when you have never actually felt true love before. It is lust when all you think about is wanting to do sexual stuff with them, no matter how much you try to convince yourself otherwise. I knew I loved my girlfriend the first time I drove home from her house to mine going about 10 miles an hour under the speed limit because I felt like I was totally drunk. Love gives you a high that is so much better than any drug.

 

[Lokisdottir]

I don't think anyone's mentioned yet that it's possible for there to be love and lust in the same relationship. In fact, I'd say it's ideal. If you're deeply in love with someone and also have the hots for them, what could be better?