Today I am honored to be sharing over at Ally Spotts’s wonderful and amazing blog. You may recall several months ago when I guest posted there a tongue-in-cheek, open letter to women about rejecting men. Well, today I nervously and humbly share a further glimpse into my own heart and the battle I have with lust, offering one way in which that battle is being won by Christ our victor in my soul with a little help–a lot of help–of my best friend. Join me on Ally’s blog today?
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Three months ago I wrote a post for the Good Women Project about pornography, in which I stated that a woman had no business getting engaged to a man who struggled with porn. Hiccups were one thing, but a continual, habituated sin was another.
Since that post, I have received hundreds of emails from women and men alike asking me how to practically overcome lust, how to tame a beast that is ever and always much greater than ourselves.
For the longest time, I didn’t really have much of an answer.
I knew what to say in the traditional sense: Read your Bible, pray, find an accountability partner.
All the stuff that sounded good to do, right to do, but at the close I had to admit in my own heart, in that dark space between advised words and lived action, that those hadn’t been enough for me.
While reading your Bible, prayer, and accountability are crucial, we shouldn’t hold them on a pedestal of medicinal salve.
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