There’s a deeper question that doesn’t come from the mouth it comes from the soul. And this is one of them.
If we fully practice being present in the moment, can we be healed of lust completely?
I believe we could. Because lust is not born in the present. Lust is the result of fragmentation. It is a pulling away from what is here. It pulls away from what is true. It also diverges from what is now being offered. It’s a distortion that happens when we’re no longer whole inside the moment. When we lose presence, we lose purity.
That’s why you can feel regret after lust. That’s why it feels like a fog lifts afterward. Because your spirit knows it wasn’t real not because the person wasn’t real, but because you weren’t fully there.
Jesus said that whoever looks with lust has already committed adultery in the heart. That wasn’t just a warning. It was a revelation of how inner truth works. Lust doesn’t need physical action to do damage because the damage is spiritual. And it happens before the body even moves.
Lust only exists when we are disconnected from our own spirit. It occurs when we disconnect from the image of the other person. It also happens when we are separated from the presence of God in the moment. Lust isn’t just looking at someone wrongly, it’s looking from somewhere false. It’s the soul’s attempt to reach for something while bypassing honesty.
The body cannot teach us love. It doesn’t know how. The spirit does. We begin to recognize the difference between holy desire and distortion only when we let the spirit take the lead. Love is not a chemical reaction or an emotional high. Love is not the butterflies in your stomach. Love is a spirit and God is love. You can’t learn real love from the body any more than you can hear God through noise.
In Hebrew understanding, love wasn’t just feeling it was a sacred loyalty. The word hesed was used to describe a covenantal love rooted in mercy, truth, and endurance. It didn’t come and go with moods. It anchored. It stayed. It was a presence not a performance. That’s what love is. And that’s why lust can never match it. Because lust doesn’t stay. Lust consumes. Love gives.
And lust is not something that happens in the now. It’s the soul reacting to something it’s already seen, heard, or imagined before. A past encounter you wish you could relive. A fantasy you rehearsed in your mind. A storyline from a song. An ache from being touched but not truly seen. Lust pulls from all of it. It takes whatever is unresolved or unprocessed and replays it through the moment you’re in. Even though your body is present, your spirit is not. You’re watching a memory, acting out a script, longing for something that already passed. That’s why people feel empty afterward. That’s why lust doesn’t satisfy. It’s not because the desire is wrong. It’s because the moment wasn’t real.
But presence changes everything.
You are fully in the moment. You’ve given your attention, your openness, your real self to what is in front of you. When this happens, something changes. The noise goes quiet. The inner voices stop. The pressure lifts. It feels pure, even if it’s simple. It’s what people describe when they say, “I can’t believe it still feels like the first time.” But the beauty isn’t in the person. The beauty is in the fact that you’re really there.
When you are present, you stop trying to control. You stop trying to repeat. You stop trying to create a high. And that’s what makes it holy. It’s holy because it’s real. Because the moment hasn’t been hijacked. Because God is present. Because you’re present.
Hyper sexuality is just the word given to the soul’s panic. It’s a scramble to recreate moments that were never healed. A rerun of experiences that left you with a taste of love but not the substance. You keep reaching out because something wasn’t resolved. But if you were healed, if you were whole, you wouldn’t need to reach back. You’d be free to see what’s in front of you now. You’d stop confusing attention with love, or memory with presence. You’d start to notice things more deeply. And even the smallest gesture could move you more than lust ever did.
Because love doesn’t start in the body. It starts in the moment. And the moment belongs to the spirit.
That’s where the healing begins. Not in trying to fix the outside. Not in trying to resist the urge. But in returning to where the Spirit is. Returning to the now.
Be still and know that he is God.
And in His presence, you are made whole again.