Patrick Carnes, (a leading psychologist in the field of sex addiction) defines addiction perfectly. “Addiction is an illness of escape. Its goal is to obliterate, medicate, or ignore reality. It is an alternative to letting oneself feel hurt, betrayal, worry, and – most painful of all – loneliness.”
How true is this of the sex addict? How often have we turned to fantasy or pornography in order to escape the pain, loneliness, or even boredom of life? How many times have we convinced ourselves that our reality just isn’t good enough, we deserve better? We delude ourselves into believing we should be able to lust after some beauty on the internet instead of connecting with our wives. We deserve it!
When we think this way we are basically telling God He isn’t enough for us. We are saying that His gifts for us (our wives, our jobs, our homes, our reality) isn’t good enough, we need more. God refused to let the people of Israel enter the land of promise because of this attitude of unbelief (Hebrews 3:7-19). Will He treat us any differently?
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