Where Do You Go for Advice? (Part 2) Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Where Do You Go for Advice? (Part 2) -------------------------- Date: 12/15/2000 Keywords: "delight" "law" "meditate" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Psalm 1:1-2* 1. How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers! 2. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. Question 1. Are you drawn to studying the Bible, or does the thought of it overwhelm you?   2. Is pornography distracting you from Bible study and prayer? If this is the case, why do you think it is so?   Practical help Although we are looking at verse 2 today, it is important to do it in the context of verse 1. Yesterday we considered the negative influence of three types of people (click here to review yesterday’s study). Your "delight" in studying God’s word is stifled by negative influence probably more than you think. Most of us believe we are "mature" enough to avoid tempters and temptations, but are we correct? The evidence that you are "delighting" in God’s law (which to the writer of this psalm was at least the first five books of the Bible, but to Christians should include every book from Genesis to Revelation) is not the presence of a warm feeling but the fact that you continue to think about it day and night. Remove distractions like pornography, begin reading the Bible and praying for understanding, spend time with Christian brothers and sisters, and you will soon discover your appetite changing. You will be drawn to loving people as God loves them and away from using erotic images of people to stimulate your sex drive. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2000 by eXXit *"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."