Maximized Manhood

"Love is of God, and true love is always giving. God's love desires to satisfy the objects of his love. 'For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son' (John 3:16). God is love. Love gives. But lust wants to get. It is basically selfish. Love gives; lust gets. The entire direction of life differs between the two. The Israelites craved what they had in Egypt. Their feet were taking them to Canaan, but their hearts kept going back to Egypt. They were loves of pleasure more than lovers of God. You can tell today when men or women are lusting. They desire to satify themselves at the expense of others. By the same token, you can tell when they are loving, because they desire to satify their loved ones at the expense of themselves.
Idolatry is a value system that we create, in which we esteem something to be more worthy of our devotion, than devotion to God." -Edwin Louis Cole, Maximized Manhood