Greetings in Christ Jesus, Fellow Soldiers.
Another explosive article has been put out, showing the ravages of pornography in our society: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2432591/Experiment-convinced-online-porn-pernicious-threat-facing-children-today-By-ex-lads-mag-editor-MARTIN-DAUBNEY.html#ixzz2g6ThYb8h
What is largely an accepted habit and source of humor amongst soldiers and society alike has become the moral, relational, and professional atom bomb of our generation. Porn kills. It gradually destroys love and human dignity. It consumes time and wastes life. It is an addiction on a level with alcholism and its accessibility makes it a danger to a much wider swath of society than other addictions.
As with other issues, this is not the time for Christians to express their revulsion at this sin and express self-righteous indignation at something they (supposedly) have never struggled with. The reality is that the vast majority of our society and the vast majority of the Church struggles with this addiction.
If God has guarded your heart and eyes with this issue thus far, do not grow haughty, but pray that He would continue to guard you and be intentional about guarding yourself.
Romans 1 tells us of how mankind traded his love for the Creator for love of the creature. This universal idolatry is shown in the same chapter to devolve into foolishness. We pervert the beauty of love between man and woman in accordance with the created order for bizarre love that blurs the lines and twists the meaning and purpose of love.
Thankfully, there was no such equivocation or confusion in the mind of God as He set His love on His people from the beginning of time. And Christ remained undeterred as He disregarded all false loves in favor of securing His people to the glory of the Father. Live with God's love in mind, not the false loves that will inevitably erode the mind.
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