A young man in his late teens is coming for counsel. He started only a few weeks ago. He made a statement that keeps stirring in my mind. He said that his drive to quit using porn was because his parents had both told him it was wrong to do this. He then said that he wanted to find his own reason/s for quitting. He didn’t want to live his life with boundaries set by his parents. He wanted to have his own that he created for himself. He was struggling to find any good reason to quit other than what his parents told him. When I asked what he knew that God’s Word with this topic, he quoted scripture about lust and sexual purity. I asked if these had any influence on his thinking? Is it possible he is simply trying to justify his own flesh desires? He said he was going to think about all of this.

It was good to hear the voice of a developing mind. One that is growing now into its own. In hearing him, I was reminded so well of those years for myself. This topic for me was so influenced by homosexual use of me that I mostly thought of sex as abuse and what was I suppose to do with it from a “Godly standpoint”? Those years are all behind me now, but this young man is just entering into this time in his life. Learning to listen and respond to that voice of intuition–God’s Holy Spirit was going to be a new discipline to learn and respect. In so doing, this will replace the voice of mom and dad’s voiced boundaries. He can trust this Voice of God within him.

Hearing God’s Voice and knowing it from any other voice is truly a blessing God gives to each one of us.