Question by Mr Psychology: Can you help me, a Christian and a (supposedly) “recovering” sexual (pornography) addict?
I’m 20 years old and male.
I used to watch pornography and pleasure myself about once a day, for roughly 7 years.
I’m also a Christian, so you can imagine just how much of a struggle this has been for a third of my life. I’m an intellectual, I’m not stupid and I don’t try to kid myself. I don’t sugar-coat things and I know what I am doing is wrong.
Last summer I started a journal and recorded my process of fighting this addiction to pornography and (hopefully) overcoming it. I finally did… or so I thought.
Recently (5-6 months later), I’m finding it harder and harder to control the urges that, just a few months ago, I could cast aside with ease. I’ve ruined my streak of 5 months without pornography, and am seeing myself beginning to pleasure myself once again more frequently.
I read passages in the bible, such as “Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him.” James 1:12, and it breaks my heart (as I know it breaks God’s).
My feelings constantly turn from shame to frustration and back again.
Please help me, I don’t know where to begin. I’ve overcome this before, but it feels even harder this time. It hurts more than it did before because before I was starting off at the ultimate low (for myself), so anything was an improvement. Now, however, I feel as though I’m going from Great to terrible.
Please, any (constructive/positive/truthful/concrete) advise is greatly welcomed, especially from a Christian perspective (I find that non-Christians, nothing against them, do not quite understand the reason behind or the severity of my feelings).
Thank you.
Best answer:
Answer by 888
Come to know Christ first.
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