Lost At Sea

Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, (2 Peter 3:3)

We have all have heard of or probably personally know preachers, elders or fathers who have brought great harm to the Church by moral failure. These men started out to build God's Kingdom but ended by attacking, hurting and driving away the sheep under their care. They got caught in the snare of lust.

Lust warps spiritual sight and eventually leads to mocking the truth. The pornography in our society is like an acid eating away at spiritual foundations. It has been called “every man’s battle”. Lust is a temptation that is common to all men. Giving in to this temptation has caused preachers to change their teaching, leading eventually to public disgrace and the mocking of Christ. Lust and pornography have destroyed countless marriages and families. Sipping at the cup of pornography is not a little, harmless, private sin. Rather, giving into the temptation of pornography is like playing in a mine field.

The lure and hooks of pornography are everywhere in our culture. Once our thoughts get caught on one of those hooks then we are like a beast that can be led around by the ring in its nose. We become mockers following after a brutal taskmaster: our own lusts.

The first step in avoiding or getting free from the lure and snare of pornography is a change in our thoughts. Personally, I found that I had to humble myself and seek help from God and others. As long as we accept lust as normal or view it as a minor problem, we are sliding into the attitude and thinking of a mocker or a scoffer. This is dangerous to every good thing in our life because our thinking determines how we feel, how we relate and what we do.

Our thinking, and therefore our life, is either moving toward the Truth or toward Error. The longer we accept the lie of pornography the more it will warp our thinking toward accepting lies, deceit and moral failure and the less we will recognize, accept and manifest truth. A man who has embraced wrong thinking in one area of his life eventually becomes like Pilate who, even as he stood face to face with Jesus, asked, “What is truth?” We lose our power of discernment and are blown toward destruction by our emotions and desires. Pornography and lust will eventually destroy the compass of our life and leave us like ships lost on the open sea; ships at the mercy of the next storm.

Project:
Ask God for a change in thinking about pornography
Seek help from someone you trust: your spouse, friend, elder, or minister.
Avoid major decisions until you are freed from the power of Lust.


The Spirit also helps us in our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.