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August 10th Heart Inventory
21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,
adulteries, fornications, murders, 22thefts, covetousness,
wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
23All these evil things come from within and defile a man." Mark
7:21-23 NKJV Therefore,
if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away;
behold, all things have become new. 2
Corinthians 5:17 NKJV
This
inventory of all the ugly things that come from our own hearts is extensive, to
say the least. Had Jesus not
come and died for us, we’d all be in serious trouble!
Thankfully, through believing in Jesus Christ as our Lord, we are
miraculously transformed into “new creations.”
The blood Jesus shed for each of us provides total cleansing from the
evil desires mentioned in verses 21-23.
The
journey into porn addiction is often quick and easy.
As the door slams behind us, we probably don’t realize how difficult it
is to get free of the porn because we’re hooked.
Porn is a powerful promoter of the evil things in our hearts. Its depictions cater to evil thoughts, adulteries,
fornications, covetousness, wickedness and an evil eye.
Porn resurrects the thoughts that were supposed to be dead in Christ.
Recovery
begins when we ask Jesus to help us die to the “old things” all over again
and to renew the “new things” (pure mind, good eyes, Christ-like heart, etc)
that were choked out by our porn addiction.
Then, we must stop looking at porn and stop letting our thoughts run wild
in lust. There are plenty of
challenges in doing this, but God will help us walk to purity.
For more details, see our Freedom Journey
study.
Questions
for further thought:
Prayer:
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