SATURDAY - 24TH JANUARY, 2026
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO
THE CONCEPTION OF LUST - Control Lust Series 002
"Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death."
We have to understand how temptation comes. Temptation cannot catch you if you're not lusting in that direction. The devil knows that. Like a great advertiser and master of awareness, he therefore sells to us our needs. He'll make the porridge of lentils look delicious to Esau, make Bilhah look consumable to Reuben and make the thirty pieces of silver a must have for Judas Iscariot. He does this because there's a foothold of those things in those individual lives. So, He only cast his anchor at it.
James 1:14 tells us how every man is tempted - "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed."
Have you seen what draws the man away? It is his own lust. If there was never any residual lust of that thing or item in his life, the devil couldn't have capitalized on that in seeing to his stumbling. You trap a rat by what he likes to eat. What gives every man away is his own lust.
When the Bible says, "But every man is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust...", it means a lot. First, it is a gradual process. Nobody just falls like that. It has to accumulate or build up before the falling into the ditch can happen. His lust, his incessant lust, his constant craving must continue enough and for a while in order to lead him astray until he's enticed, entangled and caught in what he would later regret.
Then, stage two. The Bible says, "Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death."
"To conceive" means to become pregnant. When a woman is pregnant, she must push it out in delivery. It is not the second you conceive you deliver the baby. That's why that place says, "when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin..."
Lust does not satisfy the desire of God. Lust will hurry you and put you under pressure that what you're lusting over is a must have. Lust will hurry you to take shortcuts to possess that thing therefore. How? It'll even over-possess and overdrive you. It is that which will lead you into unapproved acts. That's when your lust will be pushed out into manifesting sins. That's when you'll have duly committed sin - either by stealing something you couldn't buy or acting contrarily another way. Lust can begin as a craving but its intention is to drive you into an action of sin.
It always takes a process. "The eye that is not satisfied with seeing" can lead you here if you are not careful. It can lead you behind bars. It can lead you before a judge who could sentence you to a term in jail. If you do not master your "eye" (metaphor for your senses or appetite) that is always craving for something, it'll lead you to lust and when lust has fully been incubated upon or carefully thought of for days, then sin might be hatched.
PRAYER: Father, shed light on any lust in my life that might get me in trouble sooner or later.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Genesis 48:1-49:33; Matthew 15:29-16:12; Psalm 20:1-9; Proverbs 4:20-27
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