To Quit Porn, Get Caught | Job 24:15

The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
Saying, ‘No eye will see me’;
And he disguises his face.

Job 24:15

If you want to quit pornography, get caught. If you want to put sexual immorality behind you, use every creative tool and method and tactic at your disposal to make your sin known. The cure for habitual porn use is exposure.

The adulterer, after all, as Job observes, waits for twilight before leaving the house to have sex with another man’s wife. He disguises his face, and assures himself that no one will see him. That’s the nature of sexual sin—it thrives in darkness. It demands secrecy and deceit.

If you struggle with pornography, part of your challenge is that watching it in secret is so easy. You can get filthy images and videos on any mobile electronic device, whether laptop, tablet or phone, and you can carry these to any secluded place you want. Engaging in adultery with your eyes these days is easier than engaging in physical adultery was in Job’s day. You don’t have to leave the house, you don’t have to wait for twilight, and you don’t have to cover your face. You can watch porn anywhere, anytime, without getting caught. That’s your problem.

If you desire to break free from the bondage of sexual sin, you need to find creative ways to make your sin impossible to commit without getting caught. Or, to put it in the positive, you must use every tool in your box to make sure you get caught anytime you look at anything inappropriate. For me, this means installing Covenant Eyes on all of my electronic devices, and having an accountability partner. Covenant Eyes monitors all that I do on my electronic devices (my desktop PC, laptop, tablet, and smartphone, when I still had one). It monitors the websites I visit, the apps I use, the search terms I enter into Google, the images I look at, the videos I watch.

Covenant Eyes calls this service Screen Accountability™. It harnesses the power of sophisticated AI technology to detect porn with a high degree of accuracy, and their AI algorithm is constantly improving. Here’s how it works:

1. Screen Accountability regularly captures screenshots of what I am doing on my devices
2. It uses advanced AI to detect sexual images
3. It highlights any screenshots that it thinks may be concerning and sends them in a daily report to my accountability partner
4. In addition to concerning “Screenshots to Review,” it provides a random sampling of other screenshots—labeled “Device Activity”—for context
5. All screenshots are blurred to protect privacy, and all suspected sexual content is highly blurred

I have learned the hard way that I cannot visit pornographic sites, or even look at inappropriate images on random sites that are otherwise OK to visit (such as CNN, Prime Videos and Google image search), without getting caught. If I look at anything inappropriate, Covenant Eyes is bound to catch it, take a screenshot, and email it to my accountability partner. That hurts. And I can’t simply uninstall the app, either. My accountability partner knows if I do that, too.

Covenant Eyes isn’t my only defense against pornography and sexual temptation. But it is the best tool I know of to protect me against temptation on electronic devices. It blocks what I shouldn’t see, and it makes sure my sin will find me out. No matter where I am, no matter what time of day or night it is, if I look at porn, I get caught. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

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(By the way, I am not an affiliate partner for Covenant Eyes. I don’t earn anything from them, or anyone else, if I refer you to their site.)