Desejos
Os desejos revelam o que há no coração. A Bíblia nos ensina a purificar nossos desejos, submeter a carne ao espírito e buscar as coisas que são de cima.
Desejos da carne
A carne milita contra o espírito. O cristão é chamado a vigiar, resistir e não satisfazer os desejos da natureza pecaminosa.
16 But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
13 For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.
1 Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
13 And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
8 Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Purificar os desejos
Guarda o teu coração. Das profundezas do interior do homem saem os desejos — bons ou maus, conforme o coração.
1 I made a covenant with mine eyes;
How then should I look upon a virgin?
28 Or can one walk upon hot coals,
And his feet not be scorched?
26 There is that coveteth greedily all the day long;
But the righteous giveth and withholdeth not.
5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?
For riches certainly make themselves wings,
Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
12 All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.
2 But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
Desejos santos
Como a corça deseja as correntes de água, minha alma suspira por ti, ó Deus. Os desejos do Espírito produzem vida e paz.
1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks,
So panteth my soul after thee, O God.
8 Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we waited for thee; to thy name, even to thy memorial name, is the desire of our soul.
4 whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man:
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:
4 Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
21 for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.