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It’s normal to battle with the temptation of lust. However, it is not our nature to lust. It is our nature to love. And in today’s world we easily get the two mixed up. Love isn’t expressed through physical contact. It’s expressed through understanding, forgiveness and fellowship. Think about it like this. You have a girlfriend. You love her (even if it’s not ‘in love’ you do love her.) You also love God. I’m assuming your girlfriend is a Christian. So when you let yourself be fooled and you let lust rule in your heart who are you really loving? Are you loving God who says this about lust:

Proverbs 6:25  Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

Or

Job opens up chapter 31 with ¹ "I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl.

And would you be loving your Christian girlfriend by pulling her in the opposite direction of Him? Furthermore, would you be loving yourself for doing that to your own spirit?

When we are young it’s easy to let ourselves be fooled by what isn’t really love, but rather lust. This is because we are still learning what these both really mean. I would say this, whenever you find yourself getting lost into possibly letting your hormones (which are just lustful desires) rule over you, say a prayer and ask Him for strength. It was Jesus himself who said in Mark 26

⁴¹"Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak."

And really, you can find the answer to your problem in one verse alone.

1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.