FLEE YOUTHFUL LUST

FLEE YOUTHFUL LUST

Flee also youthful lust, but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart, 2^nd Timothy 2:22.

Lust remains one of the forces contending the innocent youths of this generation, indeed it is more or less a cankerworm which has eaten deeply into the lives of many youths to an extent that they have become so helpless in the situations which remain unfavourable. To be factual, a lot of young men and women though are not comforted yet they find it difficult to get themselves free from various lust they engage in.

Paul was seen admonishing his son in the Lord, young timothy to flee from youthful lust because he knew the dangers that lie therein, no wonder, we can’t doubt the fact that the young men and women of those days faced the same challenges, we are facing today, and they saw the decay we are seeing all round today.

Lust is a very strong desire for something, this means lust is not limited to youths, it also applies to children and adults, more specifically the passage speaks of youthful lust, this is because the youthful stage is one that is highly crucial as a result of various forces that and individual has to contend with at this particular stage in life unlike other stages, when the passion becomes low towards nearly everything.

However, inspire of the  contending forces the financial lust, emotional lust and material lust which today’s youths will have to face, God Almighty in his infinite mercy and loving kindness has made some ways of escape for willing youths, No wonder, Joseph was able to swim against the powerful tide of sexual lust in the house of Potiphar. Since we are not ignorant of the fact that youthful lust wages war against our souls, we were admonished in the book of 1^st peter 2:11 thus “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against thy soul” from this portion of the scripture we understand that these fleshly lust are stubbornly clinging to our hearts as a result of our habitations and the kinds of company we cling to, this is a very good reason why we were admonished to “flee” from youthful lust, to flee from youthful lust is not just the literal running, it is an attitude, this deals with physical and emotional actions towards every form of lust, apart from fleeing from such environments and  companions ,one must also resist every thought and feelings that has to do with youthful lust.

After fleeing youthful lust, one cannot stay alone, so as to avoid spiritual loneliness. Therefore, one must follow righteousness, which is a passion for justice and a life pleasing to God, also, faith, a strong and welcome conviction and trust in God, as well as love; a benevolent affection towards God and man and Peace which is a tranquillity in the heart with God almighty and all men

   Finally, we were admonished to run together and not alone with all other brethren who call upon God from their pure hearts, we must run with fellows companions, we must not reject brethren who fear God, like the words of that psalmist, who says he is a companion of all who fears the lord.

Dearly beloved reader, have you now seen the laid down principles of God on how helpless youth like you can flee from youthful lust, oh? Or you think you are free from youthful lust, when you are already entangled to various lust affairs that you think is love, let me tell you, you are not free until you are sexually pure, hear the book of Proverbs 6:5, Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of fowler. Don’t you know you are a prey, if you are still under the bondage of lust? Remember the mighty Samson, who met his untimely death on the beautiful laps of Delilah, don’t forget Tamar and Amnon, don’t forget Dinah, the beautiful daughter of Jacob, they were all young men and women as you are, or are you free from sexual lust, then hope you are not entangled to financial lust? Don’t forget Judas, remember the outcome of Gehazi’s material lust, are you free?

If you are not free you can be free today, if you can profess like Job 31 vs1 I made a covenant with mine eyes, why then should I think upon a maid? , and pray to stand by it, you can be stable like Joseph while in Egypt, you can stand out like Daniel did in Babylon, if you can flee youthful lust and follow peace. May the good Lord strengthen your soul as you determine to stay pure for your creator in this perverse generation in Jesus name (Amen).