Beating Sexual Temptation: The Bible Way Practically ExplainedParaugs

Staying Put and Swerving – 2 more bible ways of beating sexual temptation What is the seventh Bible way of beating sexual temptation? I would say, “STAY-PUT ” – stay-put, wait for just some more time and you would be able to have sex, the way God wants you to have it! If I paraphrased Nathan's question to David after his adultery it would be this way. "If you wanted sex, you could have had it with your wife. Why in the world did you go after another man's wife!'' (2 Sam 12: 8,9). The question Solomon asks us is also in the same vein, "Enjoy the wife you married as a young man! … Why would you trade enduring intimacies for cheap thrills with a whore?" (Prov 5:18,19. The Message). God told us never to lie, never to steal but never did He tell us, not to have sex. He only told us to stay put – wait – for the right time to have it, inside the boundaries of marriage. Just remember, you are not banned from sexual pleasure - the pleasure about which Hollywood entertainer Woody Allen quipped, "It's the best fun one could have, without laughing" – forever. Just remember a day is coming when you can have all of it – on the day of your wedding. Believe me, that very thought would puncture the pressure which gigantically builds up as we set out to beat sexual temptations! What is the eighth Bible way of beating sexual temptation? I would say, “SWERVE” – swerve from the sinful ways you use up your boundless energy! Any red-blooded young man would have a copious quantum of sexual energy, which unless swerved – diverted – for other nobler purposes will definitely lead to inevitable sexual sin. Blocking a furiously flowing river with a dam may be smart, but easing the pressure off the dam walls by diversion canals is brilliant, right? Ask David, he'll give a diversion idea: "advance against troop", "scale a wall" (Psa 18:29 NIV). Or ask the Nike shoes ad fellows and they would come this ready reply: "Move. Hit a ball. Climb a hill. Run a mile. Don't sit there. Just do it!" I am not kidding – when your sexual energies magnetically pull you to watch a porn movie (“blue film” as it is called in India), perhaps it's time to diffuse that energy into the blue waters of the beach, swimming. If "the glory of young men is their strength," what can be more glorious than giving off our best strength to the Savior, rather than to sinful sexual pleasures (Prov 20:29; 5:9 NIV).