CAN GOD USE MY SIN FOR GOOD?

I certainly don’t thank God for my long, painful and perverse involvement with pornography.  I’m ashamed of what I did for so many years, and for not seeking help sooner.  I wish I had never gotten involved in this sin and had never put my wife through so much torment. I plead with everyone who is caught up in this cycle of lust to get help immediately. Nonetheless, today I can see how God can bring something good out of my inexcusable mistakes.

I believe I am a better person now as a result of my struggle to fight my way out of this compulsive addiction than I would have been if I had never faced this challenge.  The strain of this undertaking has, at times, been overwhelming, yet I believe it has been a time of growth. 

I found there’s nothing like ending up in the bottom of a pit to help me appreciate the One who is there to save me.  I know full well that I can’t do this alone.  I remember reading the short but direct Breton Fisherman’s Prayer: “Dear God, be good to me; the sea is so wide and my boat is so small.”  I sure can’t lick this problem alone.  I need help.  My boat is tiny. I need the Lord.  When my pain helps me look to the only One who can heal my pain, then perhaps my pain isn’t totally bad.

When I reached the bottom of the barrel, and was forced to look is UP.  Down at the bottom of the barrel I discovered without a shadow of a doubt that I do not have the answer.  I need help and I need it very badly.  My case is hopeless, and my case is urgent.  I need a Savior!

Having made so many mistakes has also motivated me to want to help others avoid doing what I did.  I pray that my sins can somehow be used as an example of what not to do and rescue someone else from a terrible situation.  I’ve been there.  I understand.  Now I am equipped to show others the way out and to offer hope that they too can find their way out of darkness and walk in the LIGHT.

God is good all the time.  God did not make the mess.  I take full responsibility for my mistakes and my sins.  But thank God, He can transform the broken pieces of the mess I made into a Masterpiece. Your life can be different.  Jesus came to rescue the perishing and to seek and save the lost.

If you are caught up in the compulsive sin of pornography or some other habitual sin I pray that soon you will find freedom and that it won’t be long until like me you will be reaching out to others to offer a helping hand and a ray of hope.

Learn more about finding a new life in my book: Jesus Is Better Than Porn