Written by Uyoyou
Christiana Charles-Iyoha
Desires and emotions sometimes run amok and when they do, they carry
with them consequences which are sometimes severe. That is why every child of
God should ask help of the Holy Spirit in bridling their desires and emotions.
Shechem and his family were destroyed because Shechem could not wait
to make Dinah his wife before defiling her.
Dinah’s angry brothers wiped him and his family out of the land of the
living. Please read Genesis Chapter 34.
Simeon and Levi, the enraged brothers of Dinah killed an entire family
and clan. They could not control their anger. Please read Genesis Chapter 34
verse 25. Much later, their father Jacob placed a curse on them.
Amnon was foolish and listened to foolish counsel. He raped his
half-sister, Tamar and was consequently killed by Tamar’s brother, Absalom. Please
read 2nd Samuel Chapter 13 for details and caution in receiving and
taking advice.
Samson was the most powerful person of his time. He did not have to
carry weapons when about to engage hundreds of men in a fight as anything he
touched automatically became a weapon with which he killed hundreds of men.
Unfortunately, this powerful man lost all that power to a woman because he could
not control his unbridled desire for Delilah. Consequently, he lost the great
unction of God upon his life and died young. Please read Judges Chapter 16.
Ahab was condemned
for coveting after Naboth’s vineyard and assenting to the negative methods Jezebel
deployed in stealing the vineyard from Naboth. Please read 1st Kings
Chapter 21. Covetousness for instance is sin, sin against God because it shows
lack of appreciation for your God given gifts, person and blessings; lack of
contentment and satisfaction for the blessings of God upon your life;
uncontrolled greed for what does not belong to you; you want to own what
belongs to someone else and like Ahab, you would do anything to get what does
not belong to you. You sulk and you are unhappy over what belongs to someone
else which you greedily lust after all day.
Beloved, desires
and emotions which are contrary to the word of God are not planted by God.
Therefore, they should be promptly discarded when they show up in your mental processes
and if they are already there because you entertained them before now on
account of ignorance, now is the appointed time to uproot them from your entire
system so that they do not destroy you in the end.
A number of
powerful people; both in history and contemporary times have been destroyed by
unbridled emotions and desires. You do not want to be part of that statistics
that keeps growing by the day. God bless you as you take a quality decision to
break with every bad and evil habit that has you bound on account of the
emotions and desires you once submitted to but which you are rooting out now
from your spirit, soul and body by the Spirit of God in the mighty name of
Jesus Christ. Shalom.
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