Escaping Traps, Part 5 Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Escaping Traps, Part 5------------------------- Date: 6/10/2001 Keywords: "freedom" "highs" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Proverbs 6:1-5* 1. My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, if you have struck hands in pledge for another, 2. if you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth, 3. then do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor's hands: Go and humble yourself; press your plea with your neighbor! 4. Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids. 5. Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler. Question Why does freedom — from any entanglement — feel so good?   Practical help Verse 5 in the passage above lays out the real benefit of escaping financial risks — freedom. Same for turning your back on porn. The feeling of freedom from smut is like few other highs. The actuality of such freedom is even a better kick. Namely, freed-up time, freed-up energy, freed-up self-esteem, freed-up conscience. No wonder this passage make such a big thing out of fleeing entanglements. The freedom is worth it. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2001 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version © Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.