When it comes to their sex life, people often crave
forbidden fruits.
People seem to want
what they cannot and should not have.
Temptation itches at a person until they give in and scratch it.
So why fight the feeling?
If we were born with these urges and they
don’t seem to go away, then why not quench your thirst?
Just reach out and take the apple. This
should fix the feeling right?
The Bible
says no to all of these questions and it gives prescriptions on how to fix
those feelings.
James tells us that a
person becomes tempted by something only after they first associate it with
fulfilling their desires.
In others
words, you have to be sold on a bad idea first before you ever become inclined
to do it.
Twisted thinking fuels
temptation.
Help people clear up their
thinking and the temptation subsides.
People
crave sinful things because their twisted beliefs tell them it will fulfill
them.
The Bible refers to these twisted
beliefs as iniquity.
It’s viewing bad
things as really good.
Our own culture
even uses the term ‘bad’ as a reference to something good.
The Bible also says that a man’s own
iniquities ensnare him to do evil and that for lack of instruction He
dies.
In other words, a man’s own screwed
up thinking ultimately kills him.
The answer to resolving temptation should now
become obvious.
Temptations are resolved
by clearing up bad thinking.
The reason
temptation seems to linger for people is because they never change their
thinking and they just allow such thoughts to fester.
The fires of temptation never die down as
long as their remains bad thoughts to fuel them.
A person may have been born in sin, but that
does not imply they have to stay there.
The
Bible tells us we all need to be renewed in the Spirit of our mind.
God is not tempted by evil and you should not
be either.
Learn the truth of things
and it will set you free.
God gave us
his Word to teach us this truth.
Why
fight the feeling you ask?
The answer is
simple:
Kill or be killed.
If you succumb to temptation it will
eventually kill you.
The person who
resists temptation saves their own life by doing it.
Who would not want to put up a fight against
that which would see you dead?
I will
describe the follies of sexual immorality in other posts.
Resist sexual immorality and it will keep you
alive.
Learn why sexual immorality
brings death and it will not be a temptation for you anymore.
Related Links:
Sexual Immorality: Cannot Drag to Heaven. Be Washed to be Saved
Why should I avoid Sexual Immorality?
Nudity, Foreplay Sex: Only in the Marriage Bed do they Make Love
Lust, Lewdness,Licentiousness: Feelings/Behavior Fueled by Fantasy
Pornography & Erotica: Only Breeds Envy
Tramps, Sluts, Nymphomaniacs: The Prophetic Destiny of an Unrepentant Dirty Girl
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