Slave to Pornography

12/9/2002

There are many, many people who wear Jesus’ name and care deeply for Him and His Commands who find themselves repeatedly feeling totally blown away by controlling urges of temptation and sin. They repeatedly anguish in tears, deeply desiring to rip the claws of the enemy away from their flesh, even to the point of being willing to “gouge out an eye” or “cut off a hand” rather than fail again in this addictive sin. You need to know this with absolute certainty: There is much hope for you, regardless of how deep sin has ravaged you! No matter what the enemy would try to tell you about your life and his assessment of it, if you CARE—there is endless Hope!

For those who would read this, and you know by the Scriptures that you live in sinful excesses or addictions or practices—and yet you do NOT care, you do not wrestle, you do not feel conviction about these things—but instead excuse them, rationalize them, compare yourself to others, defend or rename the sins, or mind-block regarding them—without sadness in your heart for these things—may God have mercy on your soul.

So, I only speak to those who CARE DEEPLY about addictive and overpowering sins, rather than justify themselves. Those who excuse sin, feeling nothing, are “dead even while they live” and have perhaps already received “a powerful delusion, that they would believe the lie.” But, for those who want to please Jesus with all of your hearts, and yet find yourself “easily beset” and “dragged away and enticed by your own lusts” and take full responsibility for this—we write to you.

If your humanity is screaming under the weight of this crucial circumstance, if you listen, you will likely find that the Father is quietly wooing you at this exact same place. Read more about Overcoming Addictions and Strongholds.