In a vision I was given I was shown how remarkably easy it is to be
lured into temptation to engage in sexual sin.
(So thankful am I for the revelation inbound of a mystery.
There is most often little or resolutely no connection with what is going on at
the time the content and meaning of the revelation is received. Hence, the
revelation, as a warning or as an encouragement, is always gratefully received
as it is later pondered. And it is seen for what it is, for it is pungent with
truth. This revelation is the communication of the Spirit demanding the
furtherance of his holy communication. I am, again, to be used as his
messenger!
Please, read on...)
To be lured into
temptation to engage in sexual sin is not the wrong, in and of itself.
Our weakness to submit as if we had no other choice,
however; that’s the wrong. It’s our weakness of intention to forget what is
behind and what is ahead — the relationships implicit of faithfulness we are
about to take immediately and surreptitiously for granted — which is never more
wrong. The travesty about to prevail is a sinner’s snare when they don’t see
the litany of corpses strewn ahead; none more, their own. The awesome calamity
that is about to beset one and one’s loved ones — and so many more!
Yet being lured into
temptation to engage in sexual sin is astoundingly powerful as a force for wrong, and, if we match
up the seductive power of our innate sexual desires and our needs of felt
intimacy with the innate propulsion of wrongdoing in sexuality enacted
inappropriately, we have a potent thousand proof cocktail that inebriates even the
‘very best’ of humanity!
This is the problem
I feel the Holy Spirit wants me to proclaim: Engage the human being, yes anyone,
at the level of need, and there, place such ‘national’ (whole-of-being) pleasure
in their lap — a caress, a tickle, a requited glance, a touch — and there is
potential for an incursion of disaster to occur internationally. The process of
cause-and-effect is ignited. And a rocket-propelled vehicle goes faster down a
spiral. The forces of calumny are only just now coming into being! There is a
woe in its creation!
Only one accord for
international relations is permissible: marriage
— when one’s body (their ‘nation’) takes up with another’s to the alliance of consummate
unity to the very last breath; until death parts them.
Whatever is
intrinsically enjoyable that may involve inadvertent sexual contact — and not
necessarily, and not usually, genitalia — may prove irresistible. The brush of
skin or hair, a gaze set upon and taken in longer than the wiser look away, the
sneaky note or text message, time spent together meeting in a conspiracy of
pleasure, the meeting of a need inappropriately, in sum; these, and more, are
killers of good international relations — global safety and security is on the
line! All that is needed for a runaway train is for attitudes to become
behaviours, let alone if behaviours become habits! For a habit so appalling reaps
a cataclysmic event — an unprecedented derailment — coming all too soon. From
there the unfolding destruction goes ahead of the person who took no account
for the consequences. Destruction is then manifest in myriad dynamism. Once an
event like this is in its horrendous throes there is no recovering it until all
the forces at play come to a complete standstill. Disaster recovery must then
wrestle with what is, having full control over the management of such a
horribly disfigured scene.
***
But it need not ever
be; we have our own devices of Spirit-led and Spirit-contained response enabled
for the moment; ‘surprise’ is never
really surprise when our Spiritual acumen is enabled.
We have no excuse.
Warning upon warning
is provided, if we are interested enough in national and international welfare.
***
We must betray our mortal impulses
and actually mortify them.
The more habitual we become at
shifting swiftly away from inappropriate affections, the less power they have
over us.
Faithfulness is a lifetime of
relational investment stored in heaven — to the glory of God — but
unfaithfulness is bankruptcy both in heaven and on earth.
Integrity of heart and behaviour is
the sharpest arrow of blessing. It penetrates the bullseye every time.
Faithfulness is the sweet spot on the target toward satisfaction.
© 2015 S. J. Wickham.
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