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

The scriptures say what dealing does light have with darkness. We have a standard perspective to our spiritual and moral values. But yet we will deal with people who clearly have spiritual and moral values that do not add up to who we are. So the question is, how do you relate to them, Do you truly relate to them to where you connect to their values? Or are their values feeding off of whats with you. Except that we stop and make an assessment of our relationship values, we will never know.

Some of the most basic things in life can be more complicated than we understand. Failed relationships can seem to be the root element behind everything from divorce, to the war conflicts that we now see in Ukraine and Israel. Yet, the failed relationship is not the reasoning; but the absence of the dynamics by which relationships become effectual. Take a walk with me as we seek to understand exactly what is missing in the endeavor or relationship. Understanding what is missing, could change the entire structure of our Social, workplace, family, and even spiritual relationships. I truly hope that this first segment of Relationship Dynamics encourages you to be on the lookout for next week's edition.

It's only normal that we would believe that the word of God is sufficient for us when it comes to understanding his heart. But the nation of Israel had the word of God directly from the mouth of God, and still, they could not seem to understand the things of the heart of God. It was for this reason that God sent his son. Many people's perception of the coming of Christ ends with the concept of him dying so that we might have victory over the law of sin and death. But there's so much more to his coming. The greater purpose was that he rose so that the heart of man might be empowered with the ability to see, hear, feel, seek, and obey the things of the heart of God even as Christ did. This is a message that could be somewhat irritating for some. But the reality of it is if you face the truth of where you are you have a better power of arriving where you need to go.

Faith is much more that a verbal proclamation, and many never reach the fulfillment of its true meaning. Here's a clip from the podcast entitled A Misconception of Faith

Proverbs 14:12-16 saysThere is a way which seemeth right unto a man, But the end thereof are the ways of death. Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; And the end of that mirth is heaviness. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.Death in itself is defined as separation from God. Many of us walk about in this life not even knowing that we are spiritually dead...Believing that we know God , but in reality we only know of Him. And in retrospect to that truth, many of us who profess faith, walk about afflicted with spirits of depression, despair, and disease. Missing out on the fullness of his promises because of our inability to walk in the power of faithfulness that was once delivered unto all. Let's consider the things that may be holding us back from being in that space where God promised to bless us. That space where he declared that we would even be evidence of his glory among men. That place where it is no longer we who live, but Christ who lives within us.