My Eye Patch

 Genesis 20:16 KJV


16) And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.

Here is the end of the story of Abraham and Sarah traveling to a foreign land called Gerar. Abraham, worried that the king, Abimilech, would kill him to take Sarah, told Sarah to say that she was his sister. Abimilech then tries to woo her and he is warned by God in a dream that he is "a dead man", literally!!!
Abimilech then reproves both Abraham and Sarah, and says to Sarah that Abraham is to her a "covering of the eyes".
 
This means that Abraham is the only person that Sarah should desire to look upon or to desire to be looked upon by, and vice versa.
 
Abraham is to be Sarah's "Eye-Patch", limiting the view of her eyes to him alone.
 
We are God' bride, and when we turn to pornography, or other forms of sexual addiction, to provide the things that God provides through a wife, we are cheating on God. If you don't have a wife yet, you are cheating God and her out of a fully committed husband who desires only her.
 
Look at it this way, guys--or gals, because some women do struggle with this--how would you feel if your significant other was wanting every other guy/girl to look at and lust after them? Or if they were lusting after every guy/girl that they saw? You'd be jealous, right?
 
I can hear some of you saying right now though, "I'm not married, and I've been looking at porn, so I've already ruined my relationship with God and my future wife. Why stop?"
 
Other than the obvious fact that it's wrong, and will eventually lead you into a darker path, consider the following verse.
 
Romans 6:1-2 KJV


1) What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2) God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

Should we continue in sin, just because God will forgive us? NO!!!

We ought to be fighting for Victory in our lives. Clawing and scratching if we must.

Take a look at when you fail. Examine what happened right before you failed.

Could it have been prevented?

Then CHANGE IT!!!!
( See post entitled "Hedges" )

I have a friend who, although I have tried to help him several times, seems to not put any hedges or change his lifestyle at all. He has admitted that the only time he ever gets on the internet is at work, but he hasn't quit or asked for a different job. He watches TV, and that's just asking to be stimulated, because even the commercials are sexual or sensual in nature. It seems that at least a part of him, if he was honest with himself, still desperately wants to look at pornography. He'll never beat it until the part of him that doesn't gets a handle on the part of him that does.

Protect YOURSELF!!!

I KNOW IT'S HARD!! I'VE BEEN THERE! But you know what? You CAN beat this!!

 Make yourself an eyepatch!

Do WHATEVER IT TAKES!!!

QUIT YOUR JOB! TRUST GOD THAT IT'S THE RIGHT THING AND PRAY THAT HE'LL PROVIDE YOU WITH A JOB THAT YOU CAN'T LOOK AT PORN AT!

GOD WILL HELP YOU!!!