I more and more believe that Satan uses shame as one of his greatest weapons against a man struggling with sexual addiction. The enticement is the false promise; The act is the false intimacy; the subsequent shame is real. Satan got to another one of God's people. Satan does not care about you and me. he only cares about using us to get at God.
As years go by and the shame is never dealt with a man begins to believe that he will never do enough penance to relieve himself of this shame. I am here to tell you friends that that is simply not true. The cross is not just a symbol of what the Romans did to people. The cross is where Jesus went to pay for your shame and my shame so that we can be free to love God and spread His good news. Spreading the good news is just about impossible and not very believable when it comes from a man who is full of his own shame. God knows this and he gave the ultimate sacrifice - the brutal death of His Son - in order for everyone, everyone to come to Him through Christ as a new creation. A new creation with no shame forever more.
When man listens to the enticement of Satan he begins the road back to feeling shameful and feeling unworthy of what Christ did for ALL of us. Thus the battle begins for a lifetime. We have the armour of God through Christ to forever be free from shame and forever turn away from the daily enticements of Satan.
The Cross is waiting for you.
God Bless.
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