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OraLabora
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^^^This.
Don’t try to fight lust, instead focus on loving God, focus your attention on Him. As Praedicare says the rest of you will follow your eyes, or in this case the eyes of your heart. His analogy with motorcycling, or driving, is spot-on. I often drive in the UK, on the wrong side of the (often very narrow and lined with stone walls) road. I quickly learned that to avoid scraping the left side of the car against the hedges or stone walls, is to not look at the front left corner of the car. That’s a sure ticket to hitting the wall. I focus where I want to go, straight down the road, hugging as close as possible to the center line.
For lust, one thing that works for me, for short-term shifting of attention, is when a lustful thought enters my mind I simply say “not now, go away” and shift to other thoughts. My wife taught me that trick. It does seem to work.
Also I never ask God to make me overcome my sin forever. Every morning at Lauds I ask Him to help me get through this one day without sinning. Today is a much easier goal to achieve than every day forever.