2choosey4you's blog: "For The Lost"

Choosing God over sex

Yes, I know, the very thought alone rocks the foundation of your human nature. That’s a good thing, because your human nature is not yours. But it wants you to think that it is, so that you trust it and obey its influence.

The very consideration of this idea is strongly opposed by the sinful human nature because it would remove its ability to direct you along the paths that it wants you to travel. The sinful human nature that came into the world from Adam and Eve was Satan’s gift. And many have chosen to thank Satan for this gift.

The adversary (Satan) seeks to do only one thing with God’s beloved creation, destroy them!  The free-will given to mankind allows them to freely choose to be destroyed. I do not seek to take that choice away from anyone who wants it. God has made this an option for mankind; He does not want those who do not want Him.

There is just one very important fact to bear in mind for all of humanity, that fact is this; there is the temporal (the temporary) and there is the eternal (the forever lasting). The adversary does not want man to pay any attention to this fact. There are many reasons for this, and none of them are good for man.

Sex, power, money, prestige, glamour, control, wealth, freedom from authority, and all the other pleasures of this world that appeal to the sinful human nature exist in the temporal. Do the math!  If you have not decided to thank the adversary for everything he has provided you with, then you can do the math.  The world and all flesh exist in the temporal; that means that it will expire at the appointed time.

 I could not write about this if I did not do it myself. So don’t think that I am presenting you with a concept that I am not familiar with.  Yes, I know very well how difficult it is to grasp (or even consider grasping). How do I know?  I have been a sex addict. I may know much better than you do how difficult this truly is.

There is a verse in Scripture that reads; “…to whom little is forgiven, they loves little.” I personally have confessed to a great amount of sinful behavior that I have committed over the many decades of my life. And I have been forgiven for all of that! Much sin, have I been forgiven for!  So my offering this message comes from the great love and forgiveness that I have received from God. I love my fellow man and woman, so I seek to share this message out of my great love towards them from God.

The adversary would have you consider me as many things that deter you from taking my point seriously at all. The list would be very long and filled with such adjectives like; foolish, hypocrite, liar, coward, religious, etc. All to stop you in your tracks and turn you back towards its influence.

The choice of not considering sex in any way (mentally, physically or spiritually) has a tremendous amount of power in it. The power comes from placing that attention on God instead.  Mankind can not have anything that God has not provided him. The adversary presents options in the temporal, God is in the eternal. Choice is in the temporal, this is a very important fact for you to grasp.

Choose the temporal and/or any part of it over the eternal and you will perish with it at its appointed time. Making this decision with all the facts understood is a good thing. Those who seek to perish will not get what they want by choosing God and the eternal. Choice is free, time is limited, the adversary wants to destroy you, and wants you to want to be destroyed.

I stand against the adversary. My conviction comes from the One who made me and placed me here with what I have to give you. The adversary fears me because I serve the One who has the true power. My perspective is not from a temporal standpoint. Nothing in the temporal has my love, my love comes from the unseen eternal, and I share it as my reasonable service to the God I love.

Choosing to not consider sex is a huge hurdle, but once overcome, all of the rest of the lures that the adversary uses against mankind become smaller, and soon they don’t present any challenge at all. But choosing to not consider the lures of the adversary can not be done by man alone. It can only be accomplished after the choice of surrender to God and accepting the Gift that God has for mankind.

The Gift that God has for all of mankind is the Gift of Salvation through the belief in His Son Jesus Christ. It’s not about religion, although Christianity is a religion, it’s about Christ. Christianity is not the Gift, Jesus is. Christianity does not save people, Jesus does. Christianity can be used against mankind just like any other religion; Jesus cannot be used by anyone except God Himself.

Accepting Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior also gives you the one thing that the adversary hates more than anything else; it connects you with, and places within you, the Holy Spirit. You have never known power until you have come into a close personal relationship with the Holy Spirit.

The adversary wants mankind to consider it as holy, and soon mankind will see that it wants this very clearly. The antichrist will command that mankind worship him, and if that command is not accepted, man will face death as the punishment for failure to satisfy that command. Even the freedom to choose will end in the temporal.

We are sinful; don’t lie to yourself any more about this. If you seek to perish, confess that and let it be known to those who care about you. So you are free to achieve what you seek to acquire. If you do not seek to perish; accept the Gift and confess all of your sins to God. He is merciful to forgive all of them through His Son who died and was raised again for all of our sins, so that our forgiveness would free us of that penalty. Then stop committing the sins you were forgiven for!

Desire is incredibly powerful; you know where it leads you when you apply it to lust. You are completely clueless as to what it can do when you apply it to God. Nothing can prepare you for what will result from your application of desire for God as you have desired something like sex, or money, or power, or glamour, or anything that the adversary has dangled in front of you.

No one can give you what you must choose for yourself. Although your dead parents may have wanted you to have it, you will not have it without choosing it. My calling is to minister the choice of His Gift. I love my calling with every fiber of my spirit. Because my flesh is temporal; and I have already hung it on the cross of my Lord.