Which of the following are similar to the ways you've served Christ in your family? [check all that apply]
• Taught your kids to see God's glory in nature
• Washed the dishes without being asked
• Played a board game with your kids
• Encouraged your wife to finish her master's degree
• Attended a child's open house at school
• Worked fewer hours to be with your family
• Set an example of a godly prayer life for your children
• Held a crying child
• Swung on the tire swing with your daughter
• Told your wife why you're still in love with her
• Told your son he's got what it takes
• Coached soccer
• Let you child correct you now and then
• Fixed the vacuum cleaner
• Taught your sons to ride a bike
• Listened patiently to a complaint of your wife
• Taped your child's artwork to your office wall
• Admitted to your kids that you were wrong
• Told your children how Christ entered your life
• Cleaned up vomit
• Taught your children to love books
• Been romantic without expecting sex
• Told your daughter she's smart/beautiful
• Set standards for your kids and stuck to them
• Dealt graciously with a busybody neighbor
• Peeled carrots
• Watched movies together
Degraded Image Theme of the Week: The Sensuality Snare Monday, March 22, 2004
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Men of IntegrityMarch/April 2004Degraded ImageTheme of the Week: The Sensuality SnareMonday, March 2272
Key Bible Verse: "I made a covenant with my eyes not to look with lust upon a young woman" (Job 31:1). Bonus Reading:Job 31:9–12
Steve, a Christian friend, confessed to me that he struggled with viewing pornographic images on the Internet. He recalled how one night he was at a site that pictured nude women in various poses, next to inviting screen names and links to contact info (for a fee) for each. The pictures of the two Steve found most inviting were too small on his screen to see much detail.
So he devised a way to save the images and later open them in another program that could enlarge them. But when he tried enlarging, Steve related, "The images were all fuzzy. I could see skin color, but that's about it. It was ugly to look at."
"That's actually appropriate, if you think about it," I said. "Even if you'd seen the attractive bodies you wanted to, they'd have been distorted pictures of those women as human beings."
We looked at [today's Key Bible Verse] together, and saw that Job, born with weaknesses just like us, had avoided looking lustfully at a woman. If Job could, we agreed, there is hope for every other guy. Steve realized he needed to change how his eyes viewed the opposite sex. He made a pact with them, and invited ongoing accountability.
—Jeffrey Leever in Colorado
My Response: Have I reached the point where I'm desperate to change? Why or why not?
Thought to Apply: Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine colors that are but skin-deep.
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