Mastering Sinful Desires
Mastering Sinful Desires by David M. Tyler There are two categories of “desires” or lusts (lust is a strong desire). First, there are “inborn desires”. Inborn lusts are part of our physical makeup. These have to do with bodily lusts such as hunger, thirst, sex, etc. Secondly, are “instilled desires” which are acquired and learned. Inborn and instilled lusts, when aroused and gratified biblically, are good. A lust can become sinful when it becomes a habit and controls an individual. It becomes a bodily craving that is gratified for wrong purposes and in the wrong way. Paul wrote, “Our old...