Lust vs. love(part2)

Before you read this post,u might want to read my earlier post first.
Continuing from my earlier post,i found this article which might be useful.It's written by John Myers,a Christian lay speaker, Sunday School adult teacher and newspaper Bible study columnist for more than 20 years.

Question:Is lust normal for Christians?
"The Bible says do not commit adultery, even with lust in your eyes toward another person. However whenever I read Christian books about marriage or pornography, the Christian people writing these books and articles tell you it is normal to have lustful feelings toward other people. One article I read even said 'You will ALWAYS have some sexual longing when you see the attractive body of someone of the opposite sex.' I think this is wrong, and from what the Bible says you are only supposed to be attracted to your spouse. I am only attracted to my husband, why is it that all these spiritual and biblical people can't keep their lust to their partner and say it is normal?"--SJB
Bible Answer: Certainly as Christians we should strive for perfection, and lust is a sin, plain and simple. But the Apostle Paul said he had not attained perfection.
In Phillipians 3:12-14, Paul writes, "Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."
In Romans 7:21-25, he cites his own struggles with sin and the flesh, and then concludes that there is victory over sin through the Lord Jesus Christ.
"I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God -- through Jesus Christ our Lord!"
Looking at another person with lust in your heart is the same as if you had committed adultery, Jesus said, in Matthew 5:27-28, in the Sermon on the Mount.
"You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not commit adultery.' But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
President Jimmy Carter was ridiculed when he ran for president and admitted in an interview that he was guilty of having lust in his heart. But he was just being honest.
The point Jesus is making is that we will be judged not only by the Old Testament Law which says, in effect, "Don't do it" but by the New Testament Law of Jesus, which adds to the Old Testament by saying, "Don't even think about doing it."
Jesus judges people by the intent of the heart, just as much as by the actual deeds. But just because we can't live perfect, sinless lives doesn't mean we aren't Christians and won't be admitted into heaven. It just means we're human, offspring of Adam and afflicted with Adam's curse, and need forgiveness, just as Adam did.
Not until heaven, when we have new bodies, perfectly sinless ones, will be ever attain to be above sin. Until then, we must continue reaching for the goal and asking for forgiveness when we fall short, as we inevitably will do in this human flesh.
I am very much in love with my wife, and am satisfied wholly by her. But when I see another good-looking woman, I would have to be blind not to look and appreciate her beauty. But I do try not to lust for any other woman but my wife. I don't find that to be difficult, but it is a constant battle of will with sin.

This article is adapted from http://www.johnmyers.com/bible56.html. You might want to go in and take a look :)