Thursday, October 2, 2008
Numbing Pain
If you are new to the blog, I would just like to welcome you and thank you for visiting. This is a place where I share my thoughts and welcome your comments as well. I think it's important that we have a safe place to explore the WHY some of us struggle with sexual faithfulness in thought or action. I have found that temptations seem to hit the hardest when I’m dealing with emotional pain. In order to avoid pain, I generally gravitate to something that will stop the "bleeding". We all have a "drug of choice" when it comes to numbing pain. Mine has been escaping to my thought life and daydreaming about other relationships. I think it is important for us to explore why some of us are more vulnerable than others to sexual seduction. I would love to hear some of your thoughts. I think as we share with each other, we will gain much insight.
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hi sarah,
i've been checking in on you from time to time and figured you weren't going to blog anymore but just left it up there. anyhoo, good to see you're back.
as far as your q is concerned, i don't think any of us know the reason why some of us "seem" to be more vulnerable to sexual temptation than others. how can we even gauge that?
i think it really boils down to what gives us the most pleasure. for eg. no matter how anxious, frustrated etc. i may become, i won't reach for a cigarette or alcohol simply because i do not like the taste or aroma of either. it just doesn't appeal to me.
now, sex, i believe appeals to the majority of humanity, Christian and unbeliever alike. regardless of how we have sex or whom we have sex with most of us enjoy sexual stimulation.
for the Christian however, God regulates our sex lives and we may desire what the Lord never intended for us to have or do- so the temptation to act out our desires at times, becomes a strong temptation. as with all temptation, the victory only comes and remains as long as we keep turning it over to Jesus. oh, and it helps not to put ourselves in situations where we're more likely to succumb to the temptation.
i suppose
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Gives me something to chew on...
You hit the nail on the head with this one, for me. It's about escape. I developed a pattern of escape early in my childhood, and it is something I'm still very prone toward. The two-sided key for me has been to learn healthy escape mechanisms in place of the unhealthy ones, and to often include my wife IN my escape, rather than exclude her.
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