If You Want It Bad Enough...

They wear men’s clothes. They wear men’s shoes. They wear men’s cologne and deodorant. They cut their hair in a short manly fashion. They talk tough. They demand extra cream in their coffee and if they don’t get it, they just might come across the counter and strangle you! They pretend to “hate” men, but they act like men and most look like men. But don’t dare mistake one for a man by saying, “Excuse me, sir, may I help you?” Oh no, they will come all unglued! The “feminist” movement of years gone by is exactly the opposite; it’s anti-feminine! And should no longer be called feminine, just lesbian. They rob the cradle and the grave. They are trying to castrate our “real men” by destroying the marriage bed and the family. Don’t let it happen! Stand up for Motherhood, and embrace your femininity ladies! The “butch” look was never truly “in” anyway. Grow your hair to your waist. Buy a dozen skirts. Wear heels and lipstick just because you can!
 ²⁴ Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. ²⁵ They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
 ²⁶ Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. ²⁷ In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. ²⁸ Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. ²⁹ They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; ³¹ they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. ³² Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. Romans 1:24-32
It’s a big powerful excerpt of scripture. Mans depravity runs rampant here.  I dare not go too deeply into this vastly wide plethora of sin “flavors” available on this menu.  We are to employ the Holy Spirit and beg for self control in our own areas of weakness. However, the above verses do clearly state if we do not practice a strong form of self restraint, then God will give us over to our sinful desires. Ultimately, that isn’t what any of us want. We want self control; after all it’s a fruit of the spirit right? We want to be free from sin and death. Romans 8:2 says: ² because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you^[a]free from the law of sin and death. Freedom, as we have come to know, comes with a price, death. To die to oneself is to let go of fleshly desires.  May we continue to let go, and let God lead us. May we seek His will in our lives each day. May we not find ourselves wanting our sin so badly, that we forget our Creator and what He created us for. For His own glory, amen.