Dealing with a Harsh Sin

Ask for Christ's forgiveness. Live for Christ and not for yourself. Do everything for His sake and to receive His blessing and no one else's.

"His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ " ~ Matthew 25:23

It's behind you now. The memories will remain, but Jesus has dealt with that event. You have the rest of your life to live out productively.

John
NZ

God bless you. Praying for your peace and freedom and for a closer relationship with God.

Masturbation is perfectly normal and healthy. inappropriate behavior with animals is contrary to what God intends for our sexuality, and so it is a sin. regardless, you shouldn't feel any more guilt than you need to. All of that was in your past. look at the Bible verses on my signature

Brother! You are on the right path, do not fear at all.

We often rebel against God's grace, because such is our nature. But Christ has given himself to you. He took your sins, because such is God's remarkable love. We find it hard to accept it, because we often don't know what perfect love is. We treat it as currency. We cannot understand undeserved grace and forgiveness, so we build these walls around us, as if to "protect" us from the love we really need! And what do we do then? We stare at our sins. We almost worship them, we think they have more power than God himself, and that God would never grant his grace for us.

Jesus came for the sinners, for the lost, for the weak, for the miserable. We are often all of those. Give your struggles to Him. Pray with an honest heart, with the faith you have no matter how strong or weak it is - because we can't lie to God - and take the cleansing peace and grace, it's free. Again, it's not about what you can do for Him to help you, because He is already there, He will give you peace. Whether it takes time or not, we can't know, but you can trust in Him. Whenever you ask for you to know Him better, to believe in Him better, for Him to guide you - he will answer.

Paul said these words in Romans 3:

"But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. Because of what law? The law that requires works? No, because of the law that requires faith."

With Christ, you are in good hands. We all are. I hope you find peace soon, and I think you will.

I said a little prayer for you. And I congratulate you for your courage, many would have not admitted what they did.

Good news! Our good and perfect Father has the power to forgive what you do and feel bad about. It does not matter so much about what sins you have done, but how much you trust and believe in our savior.
Regarding "end times": Not even the Son of God (Jesus) knows when the end times are. We are taught not to live in fear, but live each day joyous knowing that we live because of a loving God who provides us all we need on earth, and the hope of forever in paradise (heaven).
Make it a good day,
Joe

Dassark said:

What causes me stress is not really the masturbation. But what it usually entails doing. I will wholly admit I can not touch with out some sort of stimuli. I haven't actually viewed any inappropriate content or anything in a while. Sadly when I do it, The material is all coming from my head. Masturbation for me has not been as severe of a problem. than from what alot of people I have read deal with. I try my best to not do the deed due to the inappropriate content and truthfully I'd rather be with out both. The inappropriate behavior with animals I have mostly gotten over and will always know how wrong it is. It's hard for me to remember what drove me to even attempt it. even as I sit here and type about it. The memory comes in and tries to get me down. But I always try and put my head up high and rid my self of it. So thank you for your response.

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my advice would be to not think about any one specific person and just get it over with to clear your head. and don't feel so guilty about it, that will only make it worse.