You win when you admit you can’t
Day 10
by Samuel
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Fighting this with willpower will never work. This can only be won by running away like Joseph did in the Bible when he fled from sexual immorality. Running away can be translated into eliminating distractions or triggers. It’s when I try to focus so much on defeating porn that I quickly lose
This! Whenever I have tried to face the demon of lust in open combat, under my own strength, it has always ended in me cringing and lamenting in a sweaty heap of my own shame. Only by seeing my helplessness and faults, and offering them up to God in acknowledgement of my inability to heal my, am I given the gift (not achievement) of continued sobriety.