Do you really want to be a slave to sin?

This is what God says: Proverbs 7:22–23 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

Now think about it.

Straightway, immediately, all at once, without fighting the temptation at all, he chased after that which he thought would satisfy his sexual desires, with as much sense as an ox that hurries towards the butcher who has some tasty grain in his one hand to lure him and a knife in the other ready to take his life from him, or as a non-thinking deer that steps into a bear trap, holding him captive until the hunter shoots his bow, sending an arrow of death straight through his liver, or as a bird that flies straight into a snare, not knowing that the hunter put the snare in that very place to catch and kill him.

How can this affect me?

Those caught up in sexual addiction are quite impulsive. They act first and think later. When they are faced with any sexual temptation, from filthy pornography to a promiscuous person, they “straightway” run to the sin without any thought of the consequences. All they desire is that instant satisfaction the flesh so deceitfully cries for. They are blinded to the fact that you cannot sin and win. The immoral butcher is ready to slit their throat, and the seducing hunter has his arrow ready to fly through the heart of the unsuspecting sexual addict. Satan will kill and destroy every man or woman he can get his wicked hands on. He uses immorality as the bait, and sadly to say, often bags his limit. Satan would love to add you to his list of trophies. He wants you dead.

We need to filter what comes through our computers and everything that comes to our minds. Make it difficult to sin and easy to do right.

Rand Hummel has worked for more than 25 years at The WILDS, a Christian camp and conference center in North Carolina. He can be reached at rand.hummel@wilds.org.