Light Writes

Photo by  Kristaps Grundsteins  on  Unsplash This guide is for one's own individual process of overcoming lust.  Overcoming lust for good may take some time. Being made holy is a gradual process.  We cannot overcome any sin in our own strength. Only in God's strength, by His Spirit and grace, are we able to overcome. How To Overcome Lust: Matthew 5:28: 'But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.' Know that lust is a heart issue. James 1:5: 'Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.' Consider the spiritual and life consequences of lust, and why lust should not be.  Why is purity good? Jeremiah 17:9-10: 'I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.' Know that the lust isn't hidden from God; He already knows about it. 'If we...

(Photo  in Header by  Álvaro Serrano  on  Unsplash ) I'd like to understand why mental illness and emotional disorders are glorified and made subjects of humour among many within my generation.  I have observed that these rotten roots of glorification run into more areas than just mental illness, including violence, a lack of relational commitment, and self-destructive isolative tendencies.  For me, a doer of, “be loved by God and love others as yourself”, participants in these areas are causes for concern and empathy. As I heal from trauma by faith in the forgiving God at the mention of whom many look away, I cannot help but pose this theory through a rhetorical question: Is making mental illness a subject of humour a coping method for a world that has not accepted healing through Jesus Christ?  A world that refuses to abandon false glory?  Leaning against a wall, I, in metaphor, view the behaviours of men, curious about other ways in which men, ...