Cleaning out the Lake

I am working on my devotional book, I'm going to submit it for a contest at the end of the month. I was doing some research on statistics and saw this video to share with you.

I've told you of how I still struggle with how to accept my husband's struggle with sexual purity. Honestly, I ask God over and over why men are wired to be so visual and why so many of them struggle. He's told me that they are wired this way for their wives, but that Satan has taken advantage of this world we live in and has manipulated our men by enticing them with sexual pleasure and temptation outside of marriage. While I understand this, I still struggle.

About a year ago I told my husband of troubled I felt. He explained his recovery to me this way (I may have written about this before, I apologize if this is a repeat): he said that his mind is like a lake or a pond. The pornography polluted the water for a very long time. But now, no more pollution is flowing into the pond and slowly the polluted water is flowing out.

That analogy really helped me.

In doing my research tonight, I found this video on www.xxxchurch.com that gives a similar analogy.


http://blip.tv/xxxchurchcom/the-human-brain-5695246