
Today I am grateful for:
- I-Pod Fun
- Midnight Snowball Fight
- Arden Hills 2012 Ball Drop!
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These strategies for bouncing and starving the eyes may sound rather simple. Maybe even easy to do. But they aren’t. Satan fights you with lies, while your body fights you with the desires and strength of deeply entrenched bad habits. To win, you need a sword and a shield.
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I have made a covenant with my eyes. [Job 31:1]
When you fail and look at a jogger, say sharply, “No, I’ve made a covenant with my eyes. I can’t do that!” When you look at a busty billboard, say, “No, I’ve made a covenant with my eyes. I can’t do that!” This action will be a quick dagger to the heart of your enemy.
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Flee from sexual immorality. … You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. [1 Corinthians 6:18-20]
You have no right to look at that or think about it. You haven’t the authority.
A shield such as this will help you think rightly about the real issues involved as you face temptation in your fight for purity. Satan’s power of temptation lies in your supposed right to make decisions regarding your behavior. If you didn’t believe you had that right, no tempting power could touch you.
+ Every Man’s Battle, Arterburn & Stoeker, 141-142
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One of the tools we have been given in our Purity Platoon is the Four-Step Fire Drill — steps to take when we are confronted with sexual temptation:
Speak aloud these words. “I will not sacrifice my purity no matter what! I will not sacrifice my purity for [name the temptation].”
Pray and ask Jesus to strengthen you right now! Ask Him to give you courage to walk away from the temptation.
Call your Purity Partner.
Flee the temptation by vacating the premises. (You should have a place identified that you can flee to for known times and places of vulnerability.

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I chose the better part, and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.
– Dr. Henry Jekyll
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Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
+ Philippians 3:12-14
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This is the holy tension of the Christian life: we aim for that which we know we will not attain in this life.
+ Luke Gilkerson
There is a marvelous discussion of the battle against sin over on the Breaking Free blog. Luke Gilkerson is writing a series of reflection on John Owen’s book, Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers. In Part VI of Luke’s reflections, he spends some time discussin what things are not truly the mortification (or killing) of sin:
Luke takes some time to explain each of these points and draws in a wonderful analogy from the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. To read Luke’s blog entry, go to: Mortification of Sin (Part 6)
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