Integrity In The Area Of Sexنموونە

A Storm Building Up

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The temptation starts with one thought – ‘This is not a sin, and we haven’t become dirty yet’. That is where we have the opportunity to hop off the train that will quickly gather speed. The easiest way to do this is to turn our thoughts to something else, instead of mulling over this delicious idea in our mind, where it quickly becomes too strong for us to stop. We can either yield or overcome here.

No one falls into sexual sin suddenly. The first door we open is in the attitude that tolerates this sin. We need to keep this door firmly closed with a desire to be pleasing to our Lord by being faithful to Him. This is what gives us strength to resist temptations. The next door we open is to indulge in sexual thoughts, excusing ourselves thinking that we aren’t doing anything! Then comes allowing sexually stimulating inputs to come into our lives through books, TV, movies, internet, etc. By now we have already become very weak, and it is only a matter of time before we begin to actually take action towards sexual pleasure.

We may not have intended to ‘flirt’ with people in the workplace to start with. But when we spend a lot of time with someone at work or while travelling for work, this ‘friendly’ relationship may slowly become too personal and intimate if we are not deliberately watchful. Even when we begin to enjoy this flirting, we may not realise that we are already being unfaithful in our hearts and are slowly edging nearer to the precipice.

We have opportunities to strengthen our guard by spending more time with God, and if we are married, we can pay more attention to building our marriage relationship by spending time with our spouse.

One lie which the devil usually tells us is that we can always stop whenever we want to. But if we just look around, we have thousands of examples to warn us.

Lord, give me a sober and watchful attitude that I don’t get fooled or fool myself when I face sexual temptations. Amen