SENSIBLE SENSES

I created your five senses - touch, taste, see, hear, and smell as receptors to receive and enjoy the beauty of My creation.  If your perception of life is centered on yourself rather than Me, the very senses I created in your body can cause addiction in your life. 

Eve was lured by her five senses to give in to Satan's temptation to eat from the "Tree of Knowledge ofgGood and Evil..  She saw that the fruit was good for food.  She couldn't wait to taste it.  It even smelled good.  The voice of the tempter became louder than My voice and when she touched the fruit, she put it to her mouth and ate it.  Ever since that garden scene, My enemy has used that same tactic to lure many abuse substances.

After Eve ate the fruit, the following lusts were formed in her being: the lust of the flesh (gratifying your senses in an addictive way), the lust of the eyes (vain imaginations and greed), and the lust of the pride of life (trusting in yourself and your own resources).  These lusts will always be in you until you die and they are the buttons Satan pushes to enter your life.  The sensible thing to do when your own lusts are luring you to sin is to say out loud, "My righteousness is of Jesus Christ."  Satan can touch your own self-righteousness, but he cannot touch My righteousness.  When self is on the throne of your heart instead of Me, you can easily be led astray by your own lusts.

1 JOHN 2:15-16; JAMES 1:13-15