Purify Your Mind Series (Part 1) by Joe KirbySample

Our Greatest Motivation

A crucial question that those who are battling sexual sin should ask themselves is, Why do I want to repent from this sin? What’s my motivation? Is it the fear of getting caught, of being exposed to my friends and family as a fraud? Is it the fear that God will send me to hell if I do not turn from this sin? Is it the fear that God will chastise me and bring pain into my life because of my disobedience? What’s your motive for getting clean?

Our greatest motive should be that the pure in heart will see God. Perhaps I’m the only one who has experienced this, but when I lived a double life, I remember watching wrong things on the Internet and then the next day, going on a date with my wife to a place of outstanding beauty, with mountains, lakes, valleys, and wildlife. I’d stand there and know that I should be in awe of God’s creation, but my vision was blurred from what I had seen the night before.

Am I the only one who’s read powerful Scriptures that should have emotionally moved me, but instead, like a drunken man, my vision was impaired from seeing anything of God? Am I the only one who has walked out of church while the whole congregation is weeping at a movement of God in the service but because my sin has blinded me I saw nothing special?

Rest assured, when the Holy Spirit binds this sin and casts it out of you, you will start to get your vision back; you will see God in ways you’ve never seen Him before. When this happens, you’ll see that for such a long time, you traded a chance to gaze on the Lord of Hosts for cheap, vulgar images on the Internet. Don’t make the same mistake I have; don’t waste years looking at filth, but instead, fix your eyes upon Jesus.