Your compulsive use of pornography is a heart issue. Sure, you live in a hyper-sexualized culture. And sure, pornography is attractive because it’s available, affordable and anonymous, and because it gives you a dopamine hit on queue. But your porn problem isn’t outside of you. You can’t blame anyone when you fall to temptation.
Likewise with the multiple remedies on the market for helping “porn addicts.” Therapy, sexual addiction clinics, 12-step recovery groups, internet porn filters, rubber bands on your wrist, accountability partners and more all have their place. These are external aids that may help you gain victory over your compulsive sexual sin. But you can’t blame anyone, or any group, or any technology, when you give in to temptation and watch pornography.
You know this, and I know this, because God’s Word is clear on the matter. You are drawn to watch pornography by an inward compulsion. That compulsion is lust. Read all about it in the New Testament book of James:
“But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.”
James 1:14
See that? You aren’t drawn away by a website. You aren’t enticed away by an app. You are drawn away by your own desires. Your problem isn’t porn—it’s lust. Your problem isn’t external. It’s internal. This is what makes pornography a heart issue. The only reason you respond to pornography is that you desire it. You can’t be tempted by something you don’t desire.
If you want to gain victory over your temptations, replace what you desire. Replace your desire for sexual gratification from pornographic images and videos with something healthy, pure, honorable and good. Desire Christ. Desire holiness. Desire your wife. Your desires determine your destiny.
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