When it comes to sex, we've gone culturally insane. Just think about how much sexually explicit and sexually driven material is pushed in front of your eyes every day.
With all of this so readily available, it's very tempting to blame sex, societal values, the mainstream media, or technology as the problem. But here's the humbling truth: sex is not the problem, nor is our environment the primary problem.
The act of sex, as God designed, is beautiful and rewarding - not evil. And we can't try to live as modern-day monastics, as if retreating from the TV and Internet would suddenly cure our hearts from sexual sin.
The counterintuitive reality is that it's only ever the evil inside our hearts that magnetizes us to the evil that's outside in our world. Likewise, it's only ever our sin that turns pure gifts from the Creator into dangerous idols.
In summary, we are the problem. More specifically, our heart, and what it asks of sex, is the problem.
[Excerpt from Paul Tripp's, Wednesday's Word]
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