I’ve received emails from people confessing to a struggle many do not easily admit to – a struggle with porn addiction.
Many singles with a heart to live for God and remain celibate until marriage still find themselves struggling with loneliness and flat out horniness to the point where, instead of having sex outside of marriage they opt for the easily accessible advent of the internet where, unfortunately pornographic videos and images run rampant
causing them to be entangled in a web that only feeds the flesh for what seems like a moment but turns into a lasting consequence riddled with continuous feelings of guilt
and shame.
Job 31:1 states, I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon
a maid? Here even Job admits to his struggle, and as a result he makes a covenant
with his eyes that he will not allow them to see things he shouldn’t that actually gets
inside his spirit.
There is a saying, “Whatever you feed it grows, whatever you don’t feed it dies.”
The more you allow yourself to view pornographic images and feed the flesh, the
more you weaken the Spirit.
Scripture reminds us in Matthew 26:41, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
So while the spirit doesn’t want to continue to feed the flesh, the flesh wants what it wants
while considering the consequences later.
It is not God’s will that we succumb to the will of the enemy by allowing him to distract us
with unholy, ungodly images filled with the devil’s spirit (instead of God’s) which also has
the ability to create a stronghold on our minds, defile the Holy Spirit within and even
cloud our judgement when it comes to the opposite sex and relationships.
If you’re reading this and find yourself struggling or have struggled before with porn
addiction, or find yourself viewing porn consistently while seemingly having no control,
I would like to introduce you to something that can help.