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Thursday, March 19, 2009


PORNO

Writings, pictures etc....anything designed to arouse sexual desire.



There is a lot of it out there...magazines, tv, movies, internet, art...indeed it is anything - designed to arouse sexual desire.

As if we needed more encouragement.

I've lived a long time in a body that doesn't need a lot of assistance. Seems like sexual desire is one of God's better,high impact design mechanisms - if unharmed by other things, it will rage on blissfully until most all of the fires of life have died down. (Some tell me that is around 85 :)

So, it always is going to be a factor in all of our lives. AND it needs to be managed appropriately or it will create havoic. The power of it will spill over into babies, and diseases, out-of-control life patterns, rages and death, depression and craziness.

Good thing is, as powerful as it is, if not allowed to get out of control, it will take care of its own pressures and needs. I've never heard of anyone exploding because they haven't had sex. :) In a wonderful way, God has built pressure relief into the system. Don't have to focus on it, for it to maintain itself.

Lots of people, not knowing that, come to places where they assume they are simply driven. They leave the exercise of good taste and self-control on the shelft and just cater to what can become almost animalish behavior. (I'm being pretty blunt today, right?)

So what do you do if you don't want to be taken over by lust, but are surrounded in the context of your life with it?

Like, what do you do if your roomate is feeding on it...or your computer buddy is loading up with it....or the walls are getting covered with it...and there is no basic escape?

Here are some ideas that have helped me...

1. Put as much distance as you can between you and the junk. I remember once when I worked in a steel mill and one of the men started telling a filthy sexual joke. I didn't know what to do, but all of a sudden I just started singing a silly song. He stopped speaking. I stopped singing. He started speaking again. I started singing again. We all stared and that was the last time he told his jokes around me. Distance...best if its in yards, or barriers etc. But put as much distance as is possible between you and the junk.

2. Wash each day just as thoroughly as you got grimey. Washing our insides is just as important as our outsides. The Bible says it plainly: we wash our insides by getting the word of God inside of us. Memorize verses, read passages, put up your own clean notes in parallel places to their dirty stuff.

3. When David went out against Goliath (the giant warrior - who was mocking him and telling him he would make a porno poster out of his beheading) - he did so with a buddy. A buddy who is committed to the same battle as you is so strengthening. You can process what is happening and how you are doing together. And the power of agreement in prayer is truly awesome. "If two of you or more agree..." Two is much better than one...there is exponential strength in partnership. So ask God to show you a buddy who doesn't want his mind and life crudded by the junk.

4. Ask God for supernatural intervention in your situation. One of the first thoughts that came to my mind when thinking about this kind of situation was of Daniel and company - living in a very corrupt time...and thrown into the fire to be roasted alive. And when their tormentor looked into the large furnace where they had been thrown, the fire was not burning them. When Daniel was thrown to the lions they did not eat him. God can supernaturally sustain and protect even when the fire is all around and the lions haven't eaten for days. Ask Him to help you.

It is an ancient truth: "Who will see God? Only the clean-handed, only the pure-hearted; men who won't cheat. Women who won't seduce." (See Psalms 24 - The Message)

May God help us as we journey towards 85....to so occupy these bodies that even our sexuality brings praise to His name, trust in His grace and power, and a straight-ahead gaze with pride.

For Jesus...not junk.

Dave