Paixão

Lidar com os impulsos do coração e os desejos do corpo exige firmeza diária de quem deseja andar com Deus. Muitas vezes, aquilo que começa como um pensamento passageiro ganha força e passa a governar nossas escolhas, afastando-nos da vida pura que o Senhor nos propõe.

A Palavra de Deus não ignora essa luta real que você enfrenta todos os dias. Pelo contrário, ela oferece direção clara para que você aprenda a governar seus deseos, encontrando no Espírito Santo a força necessária para viver de maneira que agrade a Ele.

A Bíblia nos chama a dominar as paixões e desejos da carne. O cristão é chamado a viver pelo Espírito, crucificando as obras da carne e buscando a santidade em tudo.

Crucificar a carne

Os que são de Cristo crucificaram a carne com suas paixões e concupiscências. O domínio próprio é fruto do Espírito Santo.

24 But they that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.

Galatians 5:24

5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.

Colossians 3:5

11 Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

1 Peter 2:11

4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour, 5 (not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

1 Thessalonians 4:4,5

Tudo para a glória de Deus

Quer comamos, quer bebamos, tudo deve ser feito para a glória de Deus. Devemos fugir das paixões que guerreiam contra a alma.

31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all things to God’s glory.

1 Corinthians 10:31

9 But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

1 Corinthians 7:9

26 For this reason God gave them up to vile lusts; for both their females changed the natural use into that contrary to nature; 27 and in like manner the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust towards one another; males with males working shame, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was fit.

Romans 1:26,27

3 For the time shall be when they will not bear sound teaching; but according to their own lusts will heap up to themselves teachers, having an itching ear; 4 and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.