Bridled Lust

For this ye are well informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. Ephesians 5:5 Darby's Translation

Unbridled lust must then be something bad, as in not good for us, since there can be no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. It is likely that you and I have not felt unbridled lust since what we remember about that day when we fell to lust was the battle when the flesh tugged one way on the bridle while the conscience and spirit pulled the other way. The bridle suggests a powerful animal that we could not control without it. And, well yes, each of us has felt the power of that beast. Bridled lust does not make it a good thing by default, but rather something we must endure for a time. While we may think the cause is lost due to the sheer power of the beast, our salvation in Christ places another hand on that bridle, the hand of our Lord Jesus. Through faith in Christ Jesus we gain the strength to take the bridled beast into its stall. We will of course need to put it back from time to time as it is a clever beast always seeking to escape and run where it will.

As in all things, we have good help in this,

Bucky