What does God think about us?

[tentex25]

I have a question. When us guys look at porn, we enjoy it very much...I will not lie, but immediately after it is over, I feel like I am all alone. I feel like a loser. It is so hard for me to abstain from it. Right now I am going on 3-4 days without looking at anything. But what do y'all think God thinks of us when we do that knowing it is wrong? When do you think we are forgiven for it. I am not addicted or anything, maybe 2-3 times every 2 weeks. I am a teenager, not addicted, but wanting to get rid of it. I don't let it affect anyone around me. I just don't know how to feel. Please do not quote scripture or tell me to pray. I read the Bible and pray not to fall in to temptation a lot, but it is so hard being a teenager, please tell me what y'all think!

 

[bfly]

Hi, Tentex, you have asked a very good question. Honestly, I don't all the answers. I know God is not pleased and you must know that you will at some point stop feeling it is wrong in God's sight, if you continue.

You know the more we see things, the less sensitive our conscious becomes. I don't think it is just because you are a teen. Many, Many adults are deeply involved in it.

You know you could start by ansewering a few question of yourself.

How do you have access to porn?
Do you buy the magazines?
Do you get it on the internet?
Is it readily available in my home?
Do you get it from a friend?

I don't know the answers to those questions, so I will have to assume it is a choice you have made to look at it.

You already know God sees and knows everything you do. You already know that satan is taking control of your mind when you give him the ground to pull you into the porn.

As a Christian, do you want to give satan that much control over your mind and body.

You have said how bad it make you feel after you have looked at. So right now satan has more control over your actions than God does. You have give that power to satan. God has given you a choice, satan has not given you a choice. Which one are you more eager to follow?

If you are spending your money on porn, you are supporting the works of the devil. Did you realize that.

You could support this ministry with what you are spend ing on porn. Did you know that.

This is a great forum for people of all ages and stages in their lives. I pray you have been blessed by something or someone on this forum.

You can come here and talk with others about the problems you fight each day. You can be a witness to other of how you have overcome some of the struggles and meet new friends here that deal with the same things you are having to deal with.

Spend your time wisely. Build up your treasures in heaven. Take back your life from the wiles of satan and make it plain for him to see, you are God's property and God's work you will support. Speak it out loud to satan, get out of my life, you have no ground, I stand on Holy ground and I am washed in the blood of Jesus Christ and satan can not abide where the blood of Jesus Christ lives. You will have to fight this battle every day and sometimes many more times a day, but if you believe and have faith you can win this battle and it will make you stronger for the next battle. God will not forsake you but her will allow you to go through trials just to probe to your ownslef you can win those trial and be stronger for going through them.

Please continue to post here and keep us informed of your progress. We are all praying for you and I know you will win this battle.

May God bless you and you conquer this battle and may your heart be filled with joy.

 

[Akathist]

I have a question. When us guys look at porn, we enjoy it very much...I will not lie, but immediately after it is over, I feel like I am all alone. I feel like a loser. It is so hard for me to abstain from it. Right now I am going on 3-4 days without looking at anything. But what do y'all think God thinks of us when we do that knowing it is wrong? When do you think we are forgiven for it. I am not addicted or anything, maybe 2-3 times every 2 weeks. I am a teenager, not addicted, but wanting to get rid of it. I don't let it affect anyone around me. I just don't know how to feel. Please do not quote scripture or tell me to pray. I read the Bible and pray not to fall in to temptation a lot, but it is so hard being a teenager, please tell me what y'all think!

But what do y'all think God thinks of us when we do that knowing it is wrong? When do you think we are forgiven for it.

One thing I have learned through the years is how much God dislikes sin but how much he loves us sinners. When I do anything that I know is wrong, I too feel alone. It is the loss a connection to God, to Christ. We never fully lose that connection, but when we sin knowlingly, we are like the prodigal son, who takes his inheritence and leaves to go have fun, not honoring his father as it is commanded he do so. We do not hear how the father of the prodical son felt when this happened, but I picture him tearing at his clothes in grief for he has lost his son. But at the same time he must have been hopeful that his son would return, for as soon as his son was coming back, while he was still far off, his father saw him and started preparations for a feast and then ran out to meet his son, blessing him.

Of course God doe not have human emotions, but I think that it does grieve him when we turn away from Him and his law. But as soon as we start to trun back again in repentance, he forgives us and reaches out to us.

Christ came for sinners not for the righteous, remember that. The process of turning away from unholy things ad thoughts and behaviors is a process. Keep at the race. God is waiting with open arms.

I know you said not to quote the bible or not to tell you to pray. But here is what I do: Every day I read aloud (or say aloud now that it is memorized) psalm 51. I say the words as they are my words, my prayer. This is something I have suggested others do and they tell me that it really helps. They will stop while reading it out loud and confes thier sins. (Which is what I do and suggest they do). At the end of the prayer, they remember that God forgives and it is our job to keep fighting against the passions of the flesh.

 

[UnitynLove]

One thing I have learned through the years is how much God dislikes sin but how much he loves us sinners. When I do anything that I know is wrong, I too feel alone. It is the loss a connection to God, to Christ. We never fully lose that connection, but when we sin knowlingly, we are like the prodigal son, who takes his inheritence and leaves to go have fun, not honoring his father as it is commanded he do so. We do not hear how the father of the prodical son felt when this happened, but I picture him tearing at his clothes in grief for he has lost his son. But at the same time he must have been hopeful that his son would return, for as soon as his son was coming back, while he was still far off, his father saw him and started preparations for a feast and then ran out to meet his son, blessing him.

Of course God doe not have human emotions, but I think that it does grieve him when we turn away from Him and his law. But as soon as we start to trun back again in repentance, he forgives us and reaches out to us.

Christ came for sinners not for the righteous, remember that. The process of turning away from unholy things ad thoughts and behaviors is a process. Keep at the race. God is waiting with open arms.

I know you said not to quote the bible or not to tell you to pray. But here is what I do: Every day I read aloud (or say aloud now that it is memorized) psalm 51. I say the words as they are my words, my prayer. This is something I have suggested others do and they tell me that it really helps. They will stop while reading it out loud and confes thier sins. (Which is what I do and suggest they do). At the end of the prayer, they remember that God forgives and it is our job to keep fighting against the passions of the flesh.

What Great posts!! God was truely speaking through you both.

 

[Johnnz]

Remember, your new interest in female anatomy is part of becomming sexually mature i.e it comes from God's design. Having said that, there are some real rights and wrongs about sex.

Porn is wrong most importantly for the degrading effects it has on those who take part in it. Look at at material that is based on degrading someone can never be right. Secondly, you will never learn about sex in a healthy way by taking in twisted material.

Before the internet people were more limited in access to sexual material. Often all they had was their imaginations. Now, they can actually look. The christian response is firstly, not to feel guilty about being sexual. Secondly, we have the uncomfortable task of living with a physically mature sex drive as a single person within God's principles for sex. That takes effort and comittment.

John
NZ