Lust desires a thing for its own self and no other, to consume upon itself. Lust conceives and brings forth sin which ends in death. Lust is self-focused. Even when a man pretends to be humble by reminding himself and others about how pathetic and worthless he is, he is still being self-focused.
God is love, and you are commanded to love your wife as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it. Love gives itself for the one with whom the lover has entered into covenant. Love gives itself and lives on eternally. Love is focused on others. When a man is giving himself for his wife, he forgets himself.
Lust consumes upon itself. Love gives of itself. God is love. We were made in God’s image; we were made to be like God. Thus, forgetting ourselves, we are to love, to give of ourselves.
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