Overexposure Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Overexposure ----------------------- Date: 8/17/1999 Keywords: "envy" "future" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Proverbs 23:17-18* 17. Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the LORD. 18. There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. Questions 1. How can pornography lead to envy?   2. What is the Bible’s prescription for this condition?   Practical help When the shutters snap and the cameras roll in the porn industry, our future suffers from the overexposure. All of us have looked at some pornographic image at one time and thought, "I wish my wife/husband looked like that." Or even, "I wish that I looked like that." That’s envy, plain and simple. News flash: God has no plans of granting our wishes. Instead, he wants to give us something better: a future. The lives we lead now, while perhaps not rivaling the airbrushed greatness of porn images, are the ones God gave us to enjoy to the fullest — not ones rotted by envy of people we don’t even know. So the next time you want to swap places with some porn star, remember: The future you’re trading is your own. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 1999 by eXXit * Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version, © Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.