How He Reels in the Catch
Theme of the Week: The Lure of Lust
Ed Young
Friday, July 12, 2002
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How He Reels in the Catch
Theme of the Week: The Lure of Lust
Friday, July 12
Key Bible Verse: When the Lord comes, he will bring our deepest secrets to light (1 Corinthians 4:5). Bonus Reading:Proverbs 6:24–35
Satan doesn't practice catch and release. His goal is to keep a fish on the line until that fish is plopped into his bucket—and then mounted.
Once a bass feels the pain of that embedded hook, it begins to fight. It splashes and thrashes.
Do we splash and thrash when our sexual sin is discovered? No question about it. Our splashing and thrashing often takes the form of justification. "It was only one time." (We must never kid ourselves. There's no such thing as "just a little sex.") Or "It was only sex—it wasn't love." (Sexual intercourse involves not only body parts, but all of a person's identity, emotions, and soul.) Splash, splash. Thrash, thrash.
Once a person commits a sexual sin, it's much easier to commit yet another act. The thinking is, Well, I've already messed up and destroyed my purity (or dented my fidelity), so why stop now?
Anytime you find yourself on the line, hooked into yielding to temptation, the only way to snap the line is to ask the Lord to forgive you of your sin, to cleanse you of it, and to free you from its grip. And then, swim free! Refuse to yield to the temptation of that lure again.
—Ed Young in Fatal Distractions
My Response: I'll swim free from Satan's lure by committing to …
Thought to Apply: Many … attractive temptations are like some television commercials: frequently deceptive and frightfully costly.
—William A. Ward (writer, 20th century)
Adapted from: Fatal Distractions (Nelson, 2000) by permission.
Copyright © 2002 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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July/August 2002,Vol. 5,No. 4
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Holy God, help me to detect the dangling lures, and discern the consequences of responding to them.
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