One
of the Seven Deadly Sins is lust. A friend emailed me the following story the
other day, which I think illustrates some of the negative side effects of lust:
A
young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning, while she and her
husband are eating breakfast, the young woman observes her neighbor hanging the
wash outside on a clothesline.
“That
laundry is not very clean,” she said.
”She doesn't know how to wash correctly.
Perhaps she needs better laundry soap.”
Her
husband looked on, but remained silent. Every day when her neighbor would hang
her wash to dry, the young woman would make the same comments.
One
month later, the wife was surprised to see the wash that hung on the line nice
and clean. She said to her husband, “Look, she has learned how to wash correctly.
I wonder who taught her.”
The
husband said, “I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows.”
So
it is with life. What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the
window through which we look!
I
would add that when one views the world through lustful eyes, he will see impurity
in a lot of places where it is not present. The problem is the lens of his eyes
are unclean.
