“Make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.”
Romans 13:14
Recovering drug addicts don’t carry heroin in their pockets. Recovering alcoholics don’t visit bars. And Christian men who want to quit pornography don’t mindlessly surf video-sharing sites. If you want to conquer your sinful flesh, you must make no provision for the flesh, to fulfil its lusts. This means getting off YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, TikTok and other video-sharing sites that host inappropriate videos.
I’m not talking about pornographic video sites. I’m talking about the popular sites that host videos that feature nudity, sexual inuendo, young women in bikinis, racy music videos, undressing, sex scenes from movies and TV shows, pool scenes, shower scenes, and more. Videos don’t have to be pornographic to be off limits. If they fulfil your lusts, they have to go.
If you are serious about quitting pornography, you must avoid the video-sharing sites that arouse you sexually. If you have a porn filter on all your devices, it takes care of the usual suspects. It blocks access to known pornographic websites. But your filter likely allows access to YouTube and other sites that host objectionable content. Your filter doesn’t flag these sites as inappropriate, but you must. You must make no provision for the flesh.
This isn’t easy. When friends send me links to videos on YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and Facebook, I can’t watch them. When I want to discover how to fix something around the house, and when the most promising search result is a YouTube video, I must drop what I am doing on my computer and use a computer that’s in a public place in our home to watch that video. Yes, this is inconvenient. But inconvenience is a price I’m willing to pay to stay sexually pure today. Making no provision for the flesh is difficult, but it works.
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