What is it that makes lust destructive? It's the way it distorts our desires. Christ calls us not to eliminate our desires nor to simply postpone them until marriage, but to let the Love of God reshape them and realign them. Continuing in the Sermon on the Mount, Pastor Glenn Packiam calls us to go beyond managing our behavior and to identify the wound of loneliness or rejection that leads us to misuse others. When our longings get set upon Christ and we are satisfied with the richness of His love, our other longings for relationship and intimacy get set in their proper place and become the gifts they were designed to be.
