SO GOOD QUOTES

What are the most common things that mess up our heart in? Sexual desires, lust. That’s why the next verse right away says, for harlot is a deep pit, and as a seductress is a narrow well.

When I don’t protect my heart and give it to God, I will be stressed, but I also have a lot of desires. How do I deal with this? It turns to lust, and here he’s giving you a metaphor of a deep pit.

It almost traps people. People who are struggling with lust and sexual sins, it could last for years, and they have a hard time to escape that pit. Why? Because the heart is not fully turned to God.

So also interesting, because the deep pit is also referenced to the well where people get water.

So he’s giving you a beautiful analogy. It says, like people go to that deep pit thinking it’s a well where they can get water and refreshment to satisfy themselves, but then they end up being trapped inside that well.

Why? Because the heart is not with God.

Don’t come until I wanna, how can I overcome sin?

And abouna asks you, how is your prayer, your Bible reading? Abouna it’s okay, but help me out to stop the sin. Dude, how is your prayer, your Bible reading?

That’s what helps you to stop the sin. Yeah, yeah, I know, I know, but what other practical ways it could help you to stop the sin? Your heart is not with God. That’s the problem. You don’t believe it. You don’t believe that God will transform your heart. You don’t believe the Word of God will change your heart. That’s why you’re asking these stupid questions, because you think it’s something else outside God’s word and spending time with him that will transform you.

It’s not right.

It shows a lack of wisdom and understanding.

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What St. Augustine is saying, is that these sins of lust, they not only trap us, they try to destroy us.

It takes a lot from us. Takes a lot about how we view God, how we view ourself, how we view other people, how we deal with stress, how we deal with how we deal with our free time. It distorts so many things, she also lies in wait for as for a victim, and increases her unfaithful among men.

So she is depicting her as conspiring to plunder her victims in cold, calculated, ruthless way.

And many people have felt a prey to lust, and it has impacted their life.

So he’s saying, be very careful, give your heart to God.

What worries you is what makes you run to lust. What makes you not productive in your free time is what makes you run to lust. Give your heart to God.

—Fr. Mina Dimitri