I’ve written before (and I am doing it again today) that what we are told may or may not be accurate if the message is only coming from man’s wisdom alone. Two different counselors at two different times told me that I would likely have to struggle with the temptations of porn and all its ugliness the rest of my life. I referenced it, in my mind, to a thorn in the flesh as Paul’s writing mentions his own thorn.

As I began my journaling today I wrote to Jesus about this struggle. It has haunted me endlessly over my lifetime (and for good reason I understand). When I was in high school I read I Corinthians 10:13 for the first time. “…No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. …I will provide a way of escape for you….” The sexual abuse was still happening at this time of my life. I wanted to believe this verse but it just didn’t seem true then. My hope was that someday God would make it true for me. Well, the sexual abuse came to an end, but the ugly temptations never did. Thus, my reason for writing what I did to Jesus in my journal earlier.

As I read my 90 day devotional, its message was centered around the promise in I Corinthians 10:13. When I read it this second time I realized that God has provided my way of escape. I just don’t like to act on it. My way of escape is to confess the temptation as it hits, not after one has acted on it. My only obstacle is my pride. I hate admitting that I even have such ugly things run through my head. I want to be better than that. But, I’m of the flesh too and this proves it! So, I confess to my trusted accountability that my the temptation comes. In confessing I have found my “way of escape”. I will not act on a confessed temptation. This commitment I can make daily as God’s Strength is with me in my today.