My dear children
The eye contemplates both good and evil in this life; look leads to becoming. What we continually put before our eyes and our minds will shape and determine who we are. The images tell the truth or the lie, but they all talk. In addition, our natural eyes are sensual things that are not easily satisfied (1 John 2. 16). . A lascive look can change us. A single glance can feed the inner monster to raise his mischievous head in search of more.
- “Feed me.
- ” he said.
- His appetite is fierce and dissatisfied.
- One look leads to another and then to many others.
Is this the domain of sexual desire?and the secrets contained in Internet browsers. What you see, boys, become. If they boil the tea for a long time, it becomes bitter. So if you sit down and soak up pornographic fantasies your life will taste bitter. At first, flavors may seem sweet, but bitterness will always be the end result. And this bitterness will one day be shared in your interactions with girls, in the way you think about girls, talk to girls, treat girls and take an interest in them.
Ungodly sex education
Pornography distorts your view of girls, whether you realize it or not. And one day, pornography can affect your future wife. Exuberant women on the computer screen may not directly feel the effects of their desire, but they feel them indirectly, while feeding the industry that enslaves and treats them.
But images cannot feel the pain and painful loss a woman feels when her husband’s hidden sins are inevitably revealed. I ask you not to boil the tea for long; do not let anyone contemplate the thousands of glances over the years, if this happens, you will feel bitterness, my children, and you will want to vomit it.
Lust distorts the glory of both biblical masculinity and femininity; this goes against the divine order given in the Garden of Eden. Should men care for women?They must not exploit or dominate them. Women are strong, capable and equal to them, they are not objects to use and throw away.
But the porn industry regresses men and women, and reduces them in all respects to mere actors of animal thirst of pixelation number 1, rather than honoring them as complex and glorious bearers of the image of their Creator. This is the consumer society in which we live, devaluing human beings as they are offered for consumption. The industry presents itself as a virtual sexual zoo for the pursuit of pleasure.
A much better place to look
You, my children, are called of God to reject sexual consumerism; Christ calls them to seek pleasure in him and to pour out his life in selfless sacrifice to God and to others.
Jesus Christ is the opposite of pornography. Jesus lived a life of denial and sacrifice, he never had a desire. Sex for him was not necessary, for he was perfectly in the image of God, humbled himself and placed himself last to put us first. Pornography is an exaltation of oneself. It is to put your pleasures and desires first, before the glory of God and the good of others. Since Christ is the opposite of pornography, then look to Christ in your fight against sexual temptation and sin. When you contemplate Christ, you will become like him.
“Why did God, who said that the light shines from darkness, shone in our hearts, for the enlightenment of knowledge of God’s glory, in the face of Jesus Christ?(2 Corinthians 4. 6).
Look at your face and pornography will begin to appear strangely obscured.
A safe place after a sexual failure
When Moses asked God to show him his glory (Exodus 33. 18), God’s glory in the gospel of Jesus Christ had not yet been fully revealed. How much more glorious it is for you when you ask God to show you his glory now!After the cross and the resurrection? You just need to read about this glory in the Word of God and ponder it in your heart and mind. You will be transformed. ” What will the young man clean his way with?Watch it according to your word? (Psalm 119. 9).
And if you are attracted to the illicit pleasures of the Internet, remember the words of Robert Murray M. Cheyne: “For every look you look at yourself, look at Christ ten times. “A look at your sinful self requires ten glances at Christ nailed to a cross for you. Being in Christ is the only qualification we need to contemplate his glory, even after we have sinned. He alone is the remedy and prevention of your sin.
I know my vision
Remember what Jesus said in Matthew 6. 22: “The lamp of the body is the eyes; so that if your eyes are good, your whole body has light?”
A good eye indicates clear vision and you will have a good spiritual way of seeing things (like the gift of sex), but your eyes can lie to you if you see yourself alone with them and not through them. Your eyes can corrupt your heart and mind if they only use it to see what’s right in front of you. When your eyes are filled with the glory of God in Christ, you will clearly see all the distorted lies of lust.
Before Dad and I had them, we planned our wedding. I wanted to sing my favorite hymn: “Be You My Vision?”[?Will it be my vision?], Before walking down the aisle. My prayer was that Christ was always my vision in marriage, but now this prayer also concerns you, do I pray that Christ will be your vision throughout your life?May your eyes be filled with the glory that leads to truth, life, and joy. Whatever you put before your eyes will transform you. May it fill you with light, not darkness.
Love, your mom
1: Pixylation: is a technique that captures images of real actors or objects, creating an animation sequence.
By: Liz Wann. © 2016 Desire God. Original: A Letter to My Kids About Pornography
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