It is human nature to gravitate towards what brings you pleasure. It is human nature to become addicted to and crave what alleviates your pain and makes you feel euphoric and orgasmic.
Satan knows this better than we do and she uses this “Fact” for her purposes.
However, The LORD does not desire that we remain ignorant of these “Facts” or continue to be ruled by them but warns us of them.
He leaves instruction for the Born-again holy spirit saints – Not for the religious or Unrepentant – to walk by the Spirit, and to not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other. (Gal. 5)
Worldly Facts Oppose Godly Truth. For it is a Fact that Sin Feels Good but the truth is that Sin Kills. It is a fact that the flesh lives but it that TRUTH that the desire of the FLESH brings DEATH.
Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Therefore, Put to death the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. (Colossians 3)
Beware and Be Aware of Earthly loves, even the love of family and relatives can be a snare of Satan to draw you away from Who Really Loves You and Away From God.
The world has managed to pervert LOVE into a set of emotionally stimulating variables measured in terms of levels of pleasure and self-satisfaction and defined by a montage of personal preferences, social expectations, and chemical responses in the body.
But There Are Some Safeguards In Place To Help Us Stay Focused On The TRUTH and not on the facts If We Love and Follow God.
No Matter What Flesh or Relatives Says or Desires, We Are Never To Harm or Abandon our Parents or leave them in destitution if it is in our power to provide and to care for them. You can’t love GOD whom you have never seen and ignore the needs and sufferings of the ones you see daily.
We are Never To Allow Others To Harm Our Parents or to cause our parents hardship. We are worse than none believers if we neglect the care of those who cared for us.
We Are To Live In A State Of Perpetual Forgiveness – forgiving and being forgiven as we also have been forgiven by GOD.
We live in perpetual repentance and prayer, realizing that there is no good thing that dwells in our flesh and our thought do convicts us and we need the Blood of GOD.
By so doing we remain perpetually conscious of GOD and humbled and crushed by His Great Sacrifice for us and of our eternal indebtedness and obligation to HIM.
These safeguards, in concert with the POWER of the HOLY SPIRIT help bring our will and flesh under submission where we resist temptation and the desire to sin and exercise holiness instead of wickedness.
And it is ALL BY THE POWER OF GOD, because HE LOVES US.
WITHOUT HIM, WE CAN DO NOTHING.