Something on the inside of me woke me up at 2:40 am this morning. My plans were to copy and paste a message I read from another pastor that I thought would be great and very inspiring about new years resolutions. Nothing wrong with the message but it was not what I was suppose to do today.
I recently celebrated my 41st birthday. Every birthday is a gift. Everyday we live is an opportunity to share our gifts. As Christians, we cannot separate from the call and gifts that God has given us. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to escape from my assignment and my call because I wanted to do what "my flesh" wanted to do. How selfish of me to only consider myself?
Pornography is an addiction. It is no different from drugs. It will consume you and destroy your faith and relationship with God. If you watch it once a week, once a month, or once every three months, it is slowly calling you to sin to morally paralyze you. I know personally, because I was consumed in sin.
Christians think we can sin and because no one sees us it makes it okay. It does matter to God what we do. It matters to HIM because we say all the time that God is our source but we settle for temporary solutions all the time without considering God. Pornography is a temporary solution that will lead you down a road of no self control. The bible calls it lasciviousness.
Pornography's objective is to destroy your relationships and build false ungodly relationships and habits. We say all the time that we trust God, "Why can't we trust God with our sex life?" God created sex! The devil perverted sex. Christians like to judge other "groups" but we do alot of sin ourselves. Sin is sin in God's sight!
This is the time to deal with it. What is really going on with you? What is really hindering you? Who is really hurting and just want something to help take away the pain? I have been there. Sex, pornography, lust, masturbation, are temporary solutions for your resolution. Someone is dealing with pain and emotional abuse, God sees you struggling!
This message is not just for you, it is for me. I have to take heed and listen to the Spirit of God. It's God's love that has exposed me. It is God's love that has kept this message before me and is bringing it to you today. HE knows my area of weakness and my temptations and HE knows yours. You might not be dealing with fleshy sins like me. You might be dealing with spiritual sins like bitterness and resentment, pride or lying. Have you honestly ever taken the time to deal with your mess? Temporary solutions for your resolution only mean more of the same resolutions next year. No better time than the present to start working on you.
1Peter 5:7-8
"Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour."
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