Lust for anything apart from God’s Word is dangerous. It can ruin your life because you will sacrifice so many things to get what you want. There are Christians who will sacrifice anything to ride in a Mercedes Benz. They will steal, cheat and lie to own one. Such believers have a strong desire to have some material possession, and they will do all they can to have it. This strong overpowering desire is what God calls lust. But lust is dangerous! It destroys.
2 Peter 1:4
“…having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”
Corruption has come into the world through lust. The spoiling of your life will come through your lusts. The destroying of your happiness will come through your lusts. There are many Christian ladies who have such strong desires to marry that they will sacrifice all principles and all the rules in order to get married. To lust after something is to have a strong, excessive desire for something. Usually it is an uncontrollable, sometimes obsessive desire for a particular thing. One dictionary calls ‘lust’ an animal desire. Be wary of all forms of lust, whether it’s financial lust, sexual lust or power lust. Lust corrupts and destroys good things.
