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A question for the older men here
Dave in Tenn:
Alex, with respect, I might have had a bit more to share, but I don't want to engage you in a hilarious conversation.
lilitalienboi16:
--- Quote from: Dave in Tenn on October 02, 2012, 01:27:07 AM ---Alex, with respect, I might have had a bit more to share, but I don't want to engage you in a hilarious conversation.
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O_O Please... feel free to entertain me! xD
Dave in Tenn:
No.
But I'll ask you a question. What if you had a son (or were asked by a single mother to talk to her son)...what would you say to him from your own experience?
lilitalienboi16:
--- Quote from: G. Driggs on September 24, 2012, 06:52:59 AM ---Hi Alex just wanted to add to all the other great responses. This is something I can relate to cause I've also struggled with this quit a bit.
Negative thinking can really mess you up, so try to think of all the good things God has done for you.
Just gonna make a few comments from your post.
--- Quote from: lilitalienboi16 on September 19, 2012, 11:17:02 AM ---
i'm still struggling like crazy and I feel like it's driving a HUGE WEDGE between me and our Lord.
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Dont you believe it Alex. :)
Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
--- Quote from: lilitalianboi16 --- if i were GOd, i'd be pretty sick of me right about now.
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Aren't you glad God is not a man? God is very patient with us, so try to be patient with God.
2Pe 3:9 The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance.
So while He is patient with you take the opportunity to do the right thing, one day at a time.
2Pe 3:15 Also, regard the patience of our Lord as an opportunity for salvation, just as our dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you.
--- Quote from: lilitalienboi16 ---I'm mad at paul for saying HE was the worst sinner because if he met me he might rethink that statement. I Mean paul didn't have to deal with easy access to pornography?! Sure.. he had raging hormones maybe at some point but i feel like it's far worse for me then it was for him -.-
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Not to belittle your struggles, but I dont think you could hold a candle to Paul sins. And because Paul was truly the worst sinner ever, how much easier is it for God save you?
1Ti 1:16 But I obtained mercy for the reason that in me, as the foremost [of sinners], Jesus Christ might show forth and display all His perfect long-suffering and patience for an example to [encourage] those who would thereafter believe on Him for [the gaining of] eternal life.
Jas 5:7 Therefore, brothers, be patient until the Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and is patient with it until it receives the early and the late rains.
Jas 5:8 You also must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the Lord's coming is near.
There's that patience thing again. ;)
Sincerely hope this helps and encourages you, cause your post and everyone else' has done the same for me. Thanks for posting it, that took a lot of guts young bro.
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Hello G.
Thanks for sharing. I really enjoyed that verse in peter and it was exactly what I needed to hear at this time. Well the part about the "opportunity for salvation." I read your post a few days ago but I came back to it looking for some encouragement. It has helped me greatly.
No guts my friend, just the desire for people to see me for the imperfect human I am. I hate appearing as a hypocrite to those around me so I like to be honest about these things. I don't want to appear.
God bless,
Alex
musicman:
How to be righteous with hormones:
This is a tough one and most would feel helpless but I have come up with a seven step. .. .excuse me, 12 step. . . . ahhh,?? let's just say that there may be thousands of steps when we are through.
Music Man's infinate step program to escape lust and self gratification.
OK, #1 Get married to a sexually hungry (only for you of course) woman (and it goes both ways so women just substitute everything I say with the opposite sex).
Done!!
Oh, if you are too young to legally marry (or are frightened that you may not marry the right woman) then you better keep reading.
1. Wake up every morning earlier than you want to so that you will feel tired and thinking more about sleep then lust. (We all know what good nights of sleep do to our hormones).
2. Before eating breakfast or even showering, do 100 jumping jacks. This will take your mind off of lust.
3. When going to school, wear dark shades so that you won't see all of the young girls wearing their skimpy tights that their parents tell them will make them popular.
4. Watch your step because you almost ran into somebody because you can barely see.
5. Go to first class and think about baseball, even during instruction because you probably won't be able to keep your thoughts pure with the way your hormones are racing. Ask several times to use the bathroom so you can go do pushups and situps.
6. Skip PE because that's where all of the girls wear those shorts and the sun will cause your shades to give you vision.
7. Go to band rehearsal and stick your head inside tuba bell and tell friend to blast really loud to scramble your brain. This adrenaline blast will get your mind off of lustful visions, . . . . for about 15 minutes.
8. Don't skip lunch because believe it or not, the food is so gross that even the cuttest model will seem sub par in the face of the rancid smell.
9. Try to get through to end of school day without going insane.
10. Go home and do not turn on TV. The brain is too inactive when watching TV and that means something will have to replace the nothing.
11. Try to do homework.
12. When you can't, do some more exercise.
Then read some. ...oops gotta do more pushups.
Go to bed exhausted and wake up the same the next morning.
13. Do all of this for an entire week
Week number 2
14. Do everything from the previous week exactly the same,?? except take more exercise breaks because what worked the week prior, may just not work again.
15. Drop band and join the football team, even if you weigh 110 pounds.
16. Pain often works to eliminate lust.
17. Talk tough to the biggest and meanest linemen.
18. You will not feel lust. .. until your wounds heal.
19. You won't get into college because you were never able to study in highschool anyway. And college is where you would have the biggest problem controlling your hormones anyway.
I hope this has been helpful. Perhaps not.
OK youngons, let's get pure.
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