![]() ![]() God loves a good love story more than anyone else. More than ever, women today need to fight for the purity of their marriages not just against the outside forces of the world but against the temptations that target us directly. They take advantage of our five core longings to lure us into book porn rather than satisfy women’s longings, these books exploit them for financial gain. ![]() The more I said “no” to the enticing thoughts that came to mind, the less alluring those thoughts became.įifty Shades of Grey and other erotica that have hit the shelves of mainstream bookshelves invite women into worlds of pleasurable fantasies and romantic plot lines. I thought this would be a lifelong battle, but gradually I found myself battling sexual temptation less and less often. Pages and pages of journaling through my struggles and praying for victory. Painful battles of the will after watching a chick flick with my girlfriends. Agonizing nights of singleness that tempted me with the enticing lure of sexual satisfaction with the slip of my imagination. This is not an easy post for me to write, because for years the enemy used the shame and embarrassment to silence me.Įven after throwing away all my trashy “Christian romance novels” (which I place in quotation marks simply because there is no such thing), I battled the thoughts and fantasies for years. So I devoured all the “Christian romance novels” I could find. I wanted to escape reality, which I easily did as I curled with a book in my upstairs bedroom. I wanted to be sexually alive, as my body began feeling tingling and excited in all new places. I wanted to rescue a man, like helping my brother’s good-looking non-Christian friend come to Jesus. I wanted to be protected by a strong man, like Scarlett was protected by Rhett. ![]() I read because I wanted to be cherished by a man, like Christy was cherished by Todd. As an avid reader, I stayed up late at night devouring page after page. Though the plot was predictable–fierce attraction, big problem, come-to-Jesus moment, and happily-ever-after ending– the sexual tension in the book leaped of the pages, tamed only by the occasional references to Jesus and strong morals. They were “Christian romance novels,” gifted to me by a well-meaning 40-something single woman who received a new trio in her mailbox every month. I can’t remember the title of the first steamy romance novel I read.īut I can still picture the stack of small, cheap paperbacks lining the bottom shelf of my little bookcase in my bedroom. How craftily the enemy has slipped into our eReaders, our movie-going, our thoughts, and our dreams. But as my Facebook stream is flooded with posts about 50 Shades of Grey and how excited women are to see it Valentine’s weekend, my heart breaks. ![]()
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