No Excuses Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: No Excuses------------------------- Date: 5/23/2003 Keywords: "consequences" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Proverbs 26:27* If a man digs a pit, he will fall into it; if a man rolls a stone, it will roll back on him. Questions: 1. How is your porn habit like digging a pit or rolling a stone?   2. What does this verse say will happen next?   Practical help Some words tell a lot about us by their very existence. Take "theodicy." The word means justifying the ways of God to humanity. Though such a word helps with some of the most difficult questions we face — such as why the innocent suffer — it won't bail us out of a porn habit. Our struggles in that area trace back to us, not to God. As the moral philosophers would say, we're the moral agents responsible for our smut intake. Or as Proverbs 26:27 notes, we dug the pit, and we rolled the stone. And we'll suffer the consequences. That might mean a debased view of sexuality; or strained relationships with family, friends and God. Rest assured that we will pay for our foolish choices. But the next time we're tempted to blame God for our shortcomings, let's pick up a rock or dig a hole. We're responsible for that. And we're responsible for this too. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2003 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version, © Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.