One is too many and a thousand never enough.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that phrase in my lifetime. In the beginning it had to do with marijuana cocaine and alcohol. Now it has to do with pornography. In other words one little bikini picture won’t hurt nothing, that’s like dipping your toes in the lake. The lake that’s full of piranha. The piranha will come and snip them off and guess what you bleed and you bleed badly.
Maybe it’s not pornography maybe it’s alcohol maybe it’s drugs. Maybe it’s lying, I don’t know but here’s what I do know. Nobody made you do it if you dip your toes, if you take that sip of alcohol if you smoke that joint nobody made you do it. Own your stuff you made the decision on your own you believed the lie that you could get away with it.
Don’t give credit to something that doesn’t deserve the credit
II Corinthians 10.5 Every lofty idea and argument positioned against God’s knowledge of us, is cast down and exposed to be a mere invention of our own imagination. We 1arrest every thought at spear point – anything that could possibly trigger an opposing threat to our redeemed identity and innocence is taken captive. The caliber of our weapon is empowered by the revelation of the ultimate consequence of the obedience of Christ. (The obedience of Christ dwarfs the effect of the disobedience of Adam into insignificance! See Romans 5:12-21.
The word 1aichmalōtizō from aichme, spear and halosis, to capture, thus, to arrest at spear point. Note, while the sword is for close combat as in Hebrews 4:12, a spear is used long distance. Arresting thoughts that would wish to sneak up on you, in advance, while they are still hovering on the horizon.). Mirror Bible
You are a son of the most high.
Ephesians 3:16-18 (ESV) 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
Whatever’s going on don’t let it speak louder than what Jesus says about you.
Matthew 6.6 