I didn't get into
Rob Bell's first book,
Velvet Elvis as much as many of my friends did. It was a good read, but I had heard him speak on most of the topics covered in the book. Rob's second book,
Sex God, was much more interesting and profound to me, especially the chapetet "Leather, Whips, and Fruit." Rob's angle at which he approaches the sin of lust was interesting and deep...
The word lust in the Greek language is the word epithumia. It's actually two words in Greek: the word epi, which means "in," and the word thumos, which refers to "the mind."
In the mind.
Think about the head space we give to things and people we want. It's easy for our thoughts to be dominated by a craving. We're in a meeting, we're taking a walk, we're studying, we're doing jobs around the house, and the whole time our brain is miles away, trying to figure out how to get it.
It takes ahold of us.
We are not free.
Lust is slavery.
If I want something to the point that I can't conceive of being content without it, then it owns me.
I didn't get into Rob Bell's first book, Velvet Elvis as much as many of my friends did. It was a good read, but I had heard him speak on most of the topics covered in the book. Rob's second book, Sex God, was much more interesting and profound to me, especially the chapetet "Leather, Whips, and Fruit." Rob's angle at which he approaches the sin of lust was interesting and deep...
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