supressing desires/thoughts
Submitted by Splash! on January 21 2001 05:07:03
In reply to supressing desires/thoughts submitted by Jordan on January 21 2001 04:34:32
| I just have a quick comment. For years and years I thought that I could suppress my desires and thoughts, but eventually I'd give in. I don't think the supression made me hornier; it's just that I eventually got weak and gave in to sexual temptation and couldn't supress my thoughts/feelings for very long. However, in the last year or so, there has been a few times where I was able to totally stop all sexual temptation from affecting me. I didn't even have to resist temptation -- it didn't come... it was being blocked totally. I did this by handing my life over to the Holy Spirit and just simply giving every temptation to Him. I've never experienced such peace in my life -- it was like nothing could go wrong. My whole life had changed. There was no feeling like it! Nothing could affect me -- God was taking it all from me as long as I lived as if the Holy Spirit were living through me. It's difficult to explain to someone who hasn't experienced it before, but I've experienced it three or four times during the last year for several weeks at a time, and it's been the first time that I've felt I could be able to overcome any sin in my life, through the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit of course -- this is the key. It's really nothing in ourselves that can accomplish anything -- it has to be ALL God. No amount of fasting, prayer, reading the Bible, going to church, etc. can accomplish what the simple act of handing our lives over to God can accomplish. Selah. Meditate on that. |
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