There is a verse I have read in bible.
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. 1 John 2:16-17 ESV.
I am going to tell something, please pay attention.
We love to see things that should not be seen. Can be sexually looking at every girl we see on the road, can be porn, desires of flesh can be masturbating, can be loving of money, sex before marriage, stealing (may be downloading something thats illegal), hating on somebody, wanting to be better than somebody, pride that we are better than others, can be doing drugs and there are many things like these. The world is full of it. There wont be person person without these.
Have you ever wondered why it feels so good to do bad and in everything that we do which is bad, haven’t you seen that the consequences are so bad that you need to fight so much? Then there must be something wrong with the world, isn’t it?
Lets consider one example, you donated money and you think it is good. Lets see the motive, did you do it so that, that other person tells others and then you will get a good name? Thats selfish ambition. You donated so that some good will happen to you at a later date. Isn’t that selfish ambition…? Is it truly morally genuinely good? I am sure, if you genuinely check yourself in every Good you do, there will be selfish ambition, pride, and desires of flesh and eyes.
Okay, you may say enough preaching, come to the point. My point is, it is pretty hard to battle this on your own. Because the desires never fully go away unless something else happens. Trust me. As long as there are desires, there is always a chance of relapse. You have to fight and fight for just for one thing that is masturbation and porn. I know this seems like bigger thing, but there are bigger things than these, like thousands that are morally wrong in us, with us… I want to ask a question genuinely? How many people here really quit for more than year? Can you guys answer how much of a self confidence and self control you need to get there? And even after getting there, dont you think it gets easy but it never is easy.
You see guys, we are battling against our flesh. To restrict, we need self confidence. But to overcome, we need Gods power.
You see… We are mind body and spirit. Body and mind is corrupt, its a pile of sin. God didn’t make us like this… We chose this life. Our ancestors rebelled against God and the creation that we see right now is fallen. And the spirit that is in us, loves to sin. If it wants to do good, its for selfish reasons. So, if body and mind wants the same thing and the spirit that loves sin is fighting, we are merely going in circles… We try and try… We may Succeed but will never truly overcome. So something has to happen, spirit has to be made new. Thats the offer Jesus came with, into the world. First, he forgiven us and justified us by dying for the whole world on the cross so that there will never be any guilt in us. He took our punishment on the cross. So, by his wounds we are healed. Secondly he offered a way for our old spirit to be killed and made new through holy spirit. He is god that comes into our spirit and fights with mind and body which is flesh. Holy Spirit gives us power to actually, truly overcome the world. Also, you will receive salvation without works but by the grace of God.
Okay two ways genuinely to quit.
- Have high self confidence and suffer. Accept every suffering that comes your way and prioritize accepting that. But you will never genuinely loose the desire to masturbate and watch porn, it gets easy but it never easy. I can give a false sense of, you can do it, come on and so on… But no, its not easy. And you have to have high self confidence always, everything will trigger you, learn and fight and keep going.
- Accept Jesus as God of your life and repent of your sin. Then you will receive power to truly overcome. Then you will see change.
If you want to explore option 2, free ebook to read https://www.cfcindia.com/books/the-real-truth
Try it out, even if you dont want to accept, reading wont harm you.
Secondly, if you are confused about which God is true, and if you are genuinely seeking, Just look upto the sky, and pray this… God, I dont know your name but I want to know your name so that I can know you, and I can receive help and I want to genuinely and whole heartedly say that, I want to stop sinning, genuinely I dont want to do anything that you don’t want me to do. Genuinely do this, with your whole heart, and I know my god will reach out.
Any doubts, ask me personally as private message. Not here for debates, just to tell you that my life has changed and I see lot of people that need help here, and I wanted to post this.
Take care, nothing but love for everyone in the app. I know some people here when I used to post here regularly, I hope all of you are doing well.
