Everything we do taps into a deeper reality of power: power from below for control, or power from God for love. Power for control gets things done quickly and is the easiest way to “make something of yourself.” Even the way we respond to our sin, such as pornography, illustrates our turn to self-power. We feel shame, and so turn to self-help, self-condemnation, or willpower to defeat it, but it doesn’t work. If we pray about it, we turn against ourselves, often praying through self-condemnation in an attempt to lessen the judgment of God. We quickly forget that it was in our sin that Christ
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