Thursday, February 3, 2011

How You Can Win over Impurity and Lust

“I’m Addicted to you Baby, You’re a Hard Habit to Breaaaak…”

I’m sure you’re all familiar with this antiquely remembered song as Peter Cetera of Chicago describes how he feels about a certain special someone. Funny how his lyrics then are the perfect personification of impurity.

Chained by LustUnderstanding impurity

In this generation and age, pornography, sexual immorality, adultery and lust has enslaved many, many men. Yes, even strong men of God. We live in a very sex saturated world that right now we are more surprised when a man says that he does not masturbate than when he says he does. It has grown into some sort of a norm.

“A man is enslaved to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself” – George MacDonald

And isn’t that the right term? Enslavement? We have been plagued by this sin called impurity.

Why do we have to take impurity seriously?

Impurity is a very dangerous sin. It sucks the life out of you. Look at how our world has been plagued by impurity today. Broken marriages, broken hearts, insecurity, emotional instability, self-pity, selfishness, and the list goes on and on…

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