in the battles with the passion of lust there are a number of strategies a number of ways we need to think if our battle is to be successful we need to reflect on ourselves and what it is we're really feeling what we're allowing to grow within us and what it is we're doing many times people will excuse their lust their Passion by blaming blaming the women that they see in the street oh they wear clothes that are so different to the past they dress inappropriately it's the summer time look how they're dressing do we not
hear in this excuse the voice of Adam when he said the woman that you gave me she led me to sin we must take responsibility for our lust for our passion for the things that we do we cannot go blaming others when we confess we're told never to confess the sins of others it is always our own sins that we confess confess so what kind of confession is this when we say but it's their fault look how they dress and we must ask ourselves if my mother my sister my daughter were to dress in this
way would it evoke these kinds of passions within me hopefully most people would respond of course not why then because already we feel differently towards these women than the women that we are allowing lust and the passion to overcome us towards why because we love these people we love these people truly our sisters our mothers our daughters we already carry in our hearts love for them and when we allow lust to overcome us towards some stranger or even somebody we know then it is a lack of love in our hearts we must recognize it is
a complete lack of love to turn somebody into the object of our lust and we must repent of this recognize that our hearts are unloving we need to change how we feel how we feel towards everyone how it is that our hearts are experiencing other people is it love that we are allowing to grow within us is it the love of Christ or is it something more something different and are we feeding are we feeding this lust on this passion nowadays of course many young men feel they are trapped by pornography it's so available and
pornography of course as a number of recent fathers have said is the the iconography of the devil it is the iconography of the devil it is evil and it fuels evil within us it fuels the passions it fuels lust it reduces all women in our mind and our heart to to something that gratifies our feelings it reduces women in this way human beings made in the image of God are then reduced to something that will satisfy our desires again this is evil St Isaac the syan says to us whoever does not voluntary whoever does not
voluntary withdraw himself from the sources of Temptation will involuntary become the slave of sin will be captured and take away by sin he says so let us look at what St Syrian St Isaac the Syrian is saying here that if we do not voluntarily if we do not choose to deny ourselves to turn away from those things we know stir up the passion within us then involuntarily against our choice we will be dragged Away by sin we will become slaves of sin we will be captured we will become Servants of evil we will find ourselves
incapable of resisting sin because we will become the slave of sin so we must first as with all Temptations which must be cut off at the root before they begin to grow must voluntarily we must choose to deny ourselves to reject those things that fuel temptation
