It's not enough just to be delivered and gain a victory over the areas of temptations of our own individual lives. But that we would allow God to rearrange, to balance the imbalance of the desires of our weaknesses. So that, after this transformation of our desires in our weak areas, we would no longer have weakness in those areas; and no lure of temptation in those areas will have any lustful effect on us anymore. To lust after something of our weakness, is to want to achieve it, even for a moment, even if it means that we must sin to achieve it.
But when our desires for certain weaknesses have been transformed, our lust for them will become dormant. Once we achieve this transformation of our desires, as we grow stronger in God, we won't have any desires to flirt with those weaknesses again.
As long as we stay with God and stay committed to Him, in this state of transformation, our desires for those weaknesses will remain dead. But, if we don't stay close to God, then yes, we can be lured back again into those weaknesses, even if the desire is supposedly dead.
If all we ever achieve is deliverance and gain a victory over the temptation of our weakness, then the desires for those weaknesses are still there. In which at some point, we will ultimately fall prey to those weaknesses again. Which will bring forth a yearning to satisfy those desires; and again, even if it means sinning to satisfy them.
What we must do, is pray that God would re-balance the imbalance in our desires of those weak areas of our lives. So that, being in perfect balance, we will be more as Christ was towards those weak areas. No, I am not saying that Christ was weak and had weaknesses as we; but what I am saying is that we can face these things with strength and complete victory as He did. Jesus was tempted in like manner as we are; but He being God, with the same spirit as we have in us, showed us that we too can have complete victory over areas of our lives that we struggle with. But only after we pray and ask God to re-balance our imbalance in our weaknesses, which destroys our desires for those weak areas.
Example: A person in the world drinks alcohol semi-occasionally but doesn't have a drinking problem. He gets into church and becomes born-again. He knows that it wrong to drink alcohol, so immediately and throughout his relationship with God, he never drinks again. Why? Because he never had a lustful, weak desire for drinking. He did not have an imbalance in his desires for drinking. It was a fun thing to do only for the time. But now being in God's church, he no longer sees it as fun or good for the time; so he has no problem with drinking, nor is tempted in that area.
But let's say that the same person had a weakness for gambling. In the world, he gambled everyday. Whether it was for money, food, merchandise, it didn't matter. Many times he gambled away his whole paycheck, and was left broke. Family life was going down the drain, fast. But after getting into church and becoming born-again, his gambling subsided and stopped for a long time. But due to his desires for gambling, one day it crept back into his life and he began gambling again. If it continues, it will become increasingly worse. Even though he was born-again, his desires for gambling are still there. He continues to hold onto that one ray of hope, that the next one will win big. Wants to become rich then stop gambling, he says. Most likely it will never happen. But what does need to happen, is that he would become rebalanced in his desires for gambling. In which only God can do.
In conclusion, we all have weaknesses. There is no one that does not have any weaknesses. Due to those weaknesses, our desires to fulfill them are still there. You know your own weaknesses; and you know what it takes to fulfill them; again even if it means sinning.
We must all pray and ask God to re balance our desires for our weaknesses, so that, after He does, we won't succumb to those weaknesses or be lured by them anymore. Healing yes. Cleansing yes. Purified yes. But only after our desires have been rebalanced.
Note: Let it be known that I have not revealed my own weaknesses in the examples. Through God's impression to me to write this; I based this commentary off of my own weaknesses, as God impressed me to write this possible solution to our problems. The examples were strictly fictitious.
Nov 2,2000
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