I almost never delete comments because I receive so few. Micky if you want to comment that is fine. But please do not try to make me think that I have the power all on my own to solve my problem of sexual addiction. I have tried that and I failed miserably. I tried to do it for about 10 years in the hard stuff and 34 years of trying to avoid just looking at a woman to lust after her. Since you want to quote the Bible what did Jesus say about a man who looked at a woman with lustful eyes? “That he had all ready committed adultery with her in his heart.” I am not able to fix this problem on my own and AA and other groups have helped millions of men and women in getting clean and sober. Christian organizations or not they have helped. They do not ask people to convert to a specific belief such as I have. But they do ask that you try to substitute your own power that has failed to keep you clean and sober for a power outside of yourself that will give you the power you need to break the hold the addiction has on you.
I have been reading the twelve steps book and I agree with what is in it. I just remembered some thing else in your statement about making those who do not conform to the group philosophy feel shunned or even throwing them out. Paul said that those who were doing the sinful thing and claiming to be righteous believers were to be thrown out on their ear to be lashed by the devil. When they repented of their sin they would be allowed back into the fellowship. So that is a biblical principle. I am not joining a cult. I am not joining anything resembling a cult. I am trying to find someone to whom I may make myself accountable. Some one who has been through all of what I am currently going through. God uses those of us who have been through the really bad times to help those who are going through the really bad times. I find no problem so far with what I have read about the 12 step program and I will continue to go through it. If I do not, I am doomed.
Please every one pray for me and my Lovely One. We are going through a very hard time right now. If you read the post two posts ago you will see that I was really hurting. I am not much better today but I will get there. I cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel right now but I will get there also. I am in a very dark place right now. I am still holding my sin up to the light so I am not putting that in the dark but I am myself in a very dark place. I am not asking for anything specific I am only asking that you hold us up in prayer.
Thank you.
A Real (pain-filled) Man
