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So, you admit that you have given in to sinful things. And there has not been only one problem with preferences, has there? The ones you have mentioned involve getting pleasure. So, I consider that people's real preference is for pleasure, and all that identity stuff is just a trick, then.
Our real identity is either we are children of Satan or we are children of God.
But if we are with Satan, we can be called sinners, and children of God can also be called saints or the elect.
But ones might say oh we all sin and you have named sin things. But the fact that I sin, alone, does not make sinner and child of Satan my identity.
If we have trusted in Jesus for salvation, we are children of God. But we are children who all need correction > as verse 8 says, in Hebrews 12:4-14. And God's correction succeeds against every sort of sin problem. But sin things are very stubborn, so set on getting the treasured pleasures of those sinful drives. And we humans on our own can not get rid of any sin problem. But with God it is possible >
"The things which are impossible with men are possible with God." (in Luke 18:27)
Every one of us has problems which only God can correct. Only God is almighty against our sin problems. But Satan is stubborn and stupid; so for all our lives he will be allowed to keep bringing things back to us to try to get us under the power of pleasure seeking and greedy drives and desire for revenge against people who have kept us from feeling pleasures we have treasured.
So, just because a wrong feeling attacks and violates you, this does not make this thing your identity, and it does not mean it is you. But in case you can somehow give in to a wrong idea or feeling or drive, be encouraged that God is able to change our nature so such things can not get the better of us. So, any time you fail about anything, trust God to correct you and forgive you . . . not only forgive you!! And keep trusting Him to keep doing this, while He also changes us to be more like Jesus and how Jesus is pleasing to our Father and loves tenderly and can not give in to sin things.
And, again, as you get stronger against problems which have been obvious to you, now there will be other things to also notice, which might not have been so obvious, or Satan will try to bring new wrong things in hope that you won't know they are wrong.
But we can test by how God rules us in His peace. God can make us more and more able to know Him and His ruling in His own peace being shared with us, and we can simply refuse to go along with any attention-getters which are to elsewhere. In God's peace we do have feelings and enjoyments and emotions and relating > peaceful at least inside us. And we learn and grow to tell the difference > we are children who are growing and maturing in more and more of Jesus and all we can see the Bible means God desires to share with us.
So, thank you for sharing so personally. God bless you, howsoever He pleases. And live and feed on how we as God's children are first about loving one another and loving those who do not know how to love us. And be their best friend by being good example of how to be and how to love, so they can find out how to love. And do not look down on unloving people, but have compassion, and pray for me too to get more real about what I write!!!!
Thank you very much. God bless you too.
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