Hate it! Leave it!

Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. – Romans 12:9


I 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

Blogs of Blessing

I've been scanning Blogger profiles today, looking for other believers online. While doing so, I aslo came across quite a few "naughty" ones that made my thoughts "stray". It frustrates me that sometimes I can't help but follow a certain train of thought that I know isn't going to please God. Today was one of those sometimes.

Anyway, as I was gathering more URLs of Blogger blogs, I came across one that belongs to an 18-year-old Christian guy who hit the nail on the head with regard to my frustration.

John also had a similar frustration and he talks about it in an entry in his blog, fervently.run.the.race. I particularly like the encouraging word his pastor gave to him: "That is proof that you ARE for real. Before, you did all these things but it didn't bother you. Now, you are living for the Spirit. When you do them it bothers you so you notice your sin more."

I was blessed by this guy's blog, and even more blessed to find many other Christian bloggers that are sharing their lives, testimonies and victories online.

Check out The Radiant Ones [my blogroll] on the left panel of this blogsite to visit John's weblog and of the others I found here in Blogger.

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"But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called 'Today', so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. " -- Hebrews 3:13 NASB