Just Wait ...

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Title: Just Wait ... -------------------------- Date: 8/21/2002
Keywords: "covenant" "wait"
Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation.

Passage: Exodus 6:5*

I have remembered my covenant.

Questions

1. What is a covenant?

 

2. What is God's covenant with us regarding pornography?

 

Practical help

Growing up in west Texas, I heard one comment with numbing regularity: "If you don't like the weather around here, just wait a minute." After visiting and living in several places, I've learned that locals say that everywhere — for good reason.

Sometimes fighting a pull toward pornography can feel like recurring thunderstorms; it always seems to find you. At home. At work. On the road. The lure of pornography can seem like a constant menace.

No wonder believers often forget God's covenant with them. He promised to make us a new creations with new desires and new actions. If dabbling in porn seems to nullify God's promise, take the longer view. He will remake us, though not fully on earth. He will perfect us in heaven.

So if you don't like your struggles with porn around here, just wait ...


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