“Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”
2 Timothy 2:22 KJV
The best way to consistently escape the snare and distractions of youthful lusts, which are often typified by an all-consuming longing for forbidden pleasures, is to pursue and engage your life actively in everything that celebrates your redeemed oneness. Instead of a sin-consciousness, cultivate a righteousness-consciousness. This is a faith-righteousness and not a fake righteousness based on make-belief and self-effort. Become addicted to the adventures of faith; let the agapé-love of God romance you into His rest where you cease from striving and bask in completeness. Feast on peace; celebrate your joint togetherness with everyone who has mutually discovered their original identity in the Lord. Live your life from this place of innocence, from your heart. Pursuing a greater value and pleasure is the most effective way to flee temptation. It is Christ’s love that leads us to rest, like the Good Shepherd, and brings us into the full realisation of His finished work! Agapé is Psalm 23 in one word! Glory to God!
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