Sexting Temptation VictorySample

VICTORY OVER TECHNO-SEX TEMPTATION: STEP THREE

What is Scripture number three to tame the temptation of sending sexts?

3. ALLOW YOUR PHONE TO BE CHECKED BY AN ACCOUNTABILITY FRIEND

One of the practical ways to break the bond of sexting in your life, is to allow an accountability friend the right to access to your phone. Then overcoming the sexting temptation becomes easy. “Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor.  For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not [b]another to lift him up” (Eccl. 4:9-10 NASB). When it comes to handling temptation a Scripture principle found in this passage from the book of Ecclesiastes becomes handy. King Solomon who was without an accountability friend wrote these words. It helps to recall that an accountability friend cum court prophet named Prophet Nathan was in his dad’s (King David’s) life. Prophet Nathan narrated the “mutton biriyani preparation story” (2 Sam. 12:1-4) to bring a sin-conviction to the stubborn-in-sexual-sin David post the Bathsheba affair. As he wrote the book of Ecclesiastes as an old man, King Solomon expresses in Ecclesiastes 4:10 how he missed a Nathan-like friend, who would not only clap when he did something right, but also slap, when he did something wrong – it can be seen that way! As he married seven hundred women and had further sexual intimacy with three hundred concubines, the Scripture does not record that a Nathan-like figure ever confronted him saying, “When the Word of God says, ‘The King of Israel should not multiply wives,’ how dare do you do it, Oh king?” (I Kings 11:3; Duet. 17:19). 

While watching a secular TV show with my wife, I heard a non-Christian counsellor give an advice that was very Christian with regard to the use of mobile phones. She said, “Leave your phone in a common place. Allow your trusted family members to freely use your unlocked phone. This will help you when you are tempted to misuse your phone!” I could not agree with her more! My own phone is often in my wife’s hands! When I do that, the Scripture that says, “unbelieving husband is sanctified by his believing wife” (I Cor. 7:14), becomes true, by default! Did that stump you? Let me explain: when a husband decides to behave like an unbeliever (say by using his phone for unholy things like sexting), the knowledge that his believer wife would question him, empowers him to overcome the temptation to be unholy! There are times when I leave my phone in our living room and leave home for exercising, shopping or for a meeting! These habits serve as safety nets to keep the sexting temptation far away from life!