Do you ever feel like you should be the one in control of your life? Do you feel that others try to keep you from having fun? Do you feel you are man/woman enough to do things that some people warn you about? This is something I have heard many people say.
We have often heard how that other people influence our lives and we might agree with that with our whole heart. We might even go so far in this belief that we would never hang out with those the drink alcohol, do drugs or sleep around with other people. We consider them to be living immorally. Yet at the same time we may be pulling away from others and isolating ourselves in a room with a computer, tv or magazine looking at sexually explicit information. Others are not seeing what you are doing. You truly think you are getting away with this but I speak with woman on a regular basis that say,”I have felt so dirty for so long and couldn’t put my finger on it”. Others say, “I have no self-esteem left and really don’t know why.” We don’t fully know why woman feel the way they do except for the fact if you run with a skunk you are going to smell like him. He may be disguising himself to look like a businessman, city leader, youth director or pastor but if he is looking at sexually explicit information he is eventually going to start smelling like a skunk. If you are hanging with him, you also will be sprayed with the horrible fragrance.
You might say, “I didn’t ask for this”, or “I didn’t know he was doing this”. It doesn’t matter satan doesn’t care if you innocently walk upon the skunk or if you lay in the bed with this bad boy. The bottom line is, satan loves for Christians to smell like a skunk. He loves for that smell to bleed over onto other peoples lives even if they are innocent. Have you ever walked up to a skunk and heard him say, “hey there young lady/man how would you like to smell just like me”? No, it isn’t going to happen. You aren’t even going to realize many times that the skunk is hiding in the bush. Once you have been sprayed by the skunk, it isn’t easy to get rid of the disgusting smell. If it’s on your shoes, you must get rid of the shoes. If the smell is on your shirt, then you must get rid of the shirt. The problem with sexually explicit pictures is the smell is left on your heart and your mind. You might even say, “I did that weeks ago, why are you upset with me now”. The answer is, you still have the smell on you and I can’t stand it.” Ask these ladies going through this and I promise they will agree.
The next question is, how do I get rid of my heart and my mind? How do I get the smell off of my children? How do I get the smell off of my wife? Lord knows we can’t destroy those items. Does this mean that we are stuck with this ungodly smell the rest of our lives? First of all, for those of you who haven’t been sprayed by this disgusting creature, run as fast as you can in the other direction. The smell is so disgusting that it even irrates people that you try to hang out with. You might get accustomed to the smell but I promise you those that love you will never get accustomed to it.
I receive phone call, letters and text of woman that are sick and tired of having to live with the smell day in and day out. It has destroyed their marriages and relationship with their children. Many times the person that is hanging out with the skunk will blame somebody else for them not having a relationship with their own children. They feel others placed a wall up when in reality the children can smell the sinch of the skunk. They may not know what’s wrong, but they know something doesn’t smell quite right. This pushes the person further back to themselves because nobody wants to smell like them and they feel more and more rejected.
Romans 13: 1-13
1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God:
the powers that be are ordained of God.
2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they t
hat resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power?
do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid;
for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God,
a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
5 Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
6 For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers,
attending continually upon this very thing.
7 ¶ Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due;
custom to whom custom; fear towhom fear; honour to whom honour.
8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another:
for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal,
Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet;
and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
11 ¶ And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep:
for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness,
and let us put on the armour of light.
13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness,
not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
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