The Lies of Lust: Fantasies That Won’t Satisfy

When you think about all traps, the foundational lie that they sell is getting you to believe something is real that really isn’t.  You’ve probably bought products you later regretted because the reality didn’t match what was promised by the advertisement.  The classic is the beautiful real estate in Florida being sold for a great deal, only for the buyer to find out later it’s swampland that can’t be built on.  The Proverbs 7 examples of animal traps would also match this, but in a deadly way.  You put some bait in the trap, the animal walks in thinking it’s going to get a delicious meal.  The delicious meal is the animal’s perceived reality.  The cheese or peanut butter or chunk of meat looks and feels so real.  In some ways it is real.  But it’s a good thing placed in a destructive context.  The true, ultimate reality, the only reality that actually matters, is death and destruction for this animal.

“…like a bird darting into a snare, little knowing it will cost him his life.” Proverbs 7:23

The bird would have never entered the snare if it knew it would die!

A lot of us who struggle with lust know this truth, yet continue to fall into its trap…

Read the rest of this article on the Covenant Eyes blog. 

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