Lust simply means, “I must have this at once”; it may be a bodily appetite or a spiritual possession. The principle lust works on is, “I must have it at once, I cannot wait for God’s time, God is too indifferent,” that is the way lust works. Watch how our Lord faced men, He always faced this disposition of sin, He never summed men up by their external conduct. He was not driven into panics by immorality and fleshly sordidness, that sort of sin never seemed to bother Him half as much as the respectable