Living by Lust, Luck or Loyalty?

Living by lust is being driven by your desires. It’s when you do what you do just to get what you want. Morals aren’t the main concern but what matters to you is if it makes you happy. The problem with lust is that it causes corruption. And corruption kills or at the very least alienates you form the good people in your life and kills you later after its done it’s maximum damage. Lust is not just lust for flesh but the lust of the flesh. The lust could be for sex but it could also be for food, money, recognition, position, success, possessions, drugs… etc. Lust tries to fill the place of love but no matter how much you try you still feel empty so you go on overindulging until you make yourself sick and in more ways than one. Lust is the lifestyle of the weak and spineless scoundrel.

Living by luck is setting your hope on chance. The problem is statistics say that the deck is stacked against you. This is how casinos and also the enemy of your soul stay in business. When you’re living by luck you will make stupid decisions hoping for a “miracle” with no basis for belief. But when you win it’s really no miracle at all just one of your wins that goes with the stack of your losses. You will lose way more often than you will win and wonder why God doesn’t change your luck. You’ll end up deluded and disappointed because your hope set in chance and circumstance is fragile that it will end up being shattered. God’s not God of luck like a leprechaun or something and there’s still no pot-o-gold at the end of the rainbow.

Living by loyalty is when you base your beliefs on the character of someone who is true. God is faithful, ever true and loyal to you. What He said He will do and that’s strong enough to build your life on. He has a plan and it’s for eternal endurance and not just obtaining a few plastic trophies. There is no get rich quick scheme, no rolling the dice and getting your dream. The closest thing there is, is the day that you receive salvation. The day you got God you got rich. You became an heir of the Almighty! Now you have access to His life, light and love and the peace of God that surpasses all understanding! Joy unspeakable and full of glory fills your soul and all the fruit of the Spirit is available to you. The blessings of God far surpass all the riches of the world. If you could obtain “everything” it would still not be enough to satisfy your soul and what would you do with it when you got it? “Well I would use all that ‘stuff’ to make people happy!” Well if they are not happy with what they already have ‘more stuff’ is just going to make them ‘more unhappy’. Not that stuff in and of itself is bad, it just can’t satisfy your soul. But God is faithful and He will satisfy your soul with His goodness. I’ve noticed that often Christians get discouraged when living by lust or luck and are disappointed because it still seems that they don’t have “enough” to make them happy. The truth is they just aren’t aware of Who they have. The problem is not one of provision but of focus. If you’re “looking for love in all the wrong places” and drawing more cards hoping for aces then you’re bound to wind up in the enemy’s embraces. But God is loyal to love you with everlasting, awesome, intense and eternal love. Because He’s loyal to you He will take care of you no matter what happens in the world. He will constantly fill your heart and overflow it with His love, joy and peace when your heart is open and you’re aware to receive it. He is a God of abundance and you are abundantly His. He will satisfy you insatiable desire to have more than enough because He’s giving you Himself and He’s the ever increasing Creator.

2 Peter 1:2-4
2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
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1 John 2:15-17
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life — is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
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Mark 8:36
36 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
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Eccl 6:3-7

3 If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he — 4 for it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness. 5 Though it has not seen the sun or known anything, this has more rest than that man, 6 even if he lives a thousand years twice — but has not seen goodness. Do not all go to one place?

7 All the labor of man is for his mouth,
And yet the soul is not satisfied.
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Jer 31:14
and My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, says the Lord."
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Eph 3:14-21
14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height — 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
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Eph 3:20
20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
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Eph 3:20
20 God can do anything, you know — far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us. MES

Eph 3:20-21
20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,
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Eph 3:20
20 Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams] —
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Gen 15:1b
I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."
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