Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. – Romans 12:9I had this dalliance with pornography and I kept wondering how I could still be loved by God when I was deliberately disobeying Him. But He showed me and proved to me that He loved me still when He restored me in alignment with my destiny and His purpose for me.
During that time of living in sin, I had kept asking God: “Lord, why won’t You remove this weakness, this lust for pornography?” He didn’t give me the answer right away, but over the years, the Lord revealed to me that He couldn’t deliver me from something that I still had a love for. I had to have a HATRED FOR SIN before deliverance came.
I didn’t doubt God’s love at this time but I didn’t feel it and saw myself unworthy because the sin of pornography kept me feeling guilty and unclean. That's usually the effect of sin. The spirit of condemnation comes in heavy and lies to us about who we are in the Lord.
But when I finally decided to HATE SIN, that I would no longer offer my body and my mind to serve the god of lust and pornography, God came rushing in and removed my inclinations to it. The temptation is still there, mind you. Everyday the devil looks for ways to entice me with porn stuff, but He whom the Son sets free is free indeed (John 8:36). And I know I am!
Just last week, the Lord added this revelation about sin:
"In the same way that you have made the decision to worship Me no matter what circumstances come into your life, you can also make the decision to hate sin and stop living in sin."
It just takes one choice. We can choose to either love God or love sin. The choice we make reveals the sincerity of our love for God, and the intensity of our grasp on what is good.
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. – Romans 12:9
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