Blake Robert Templeton uses an ice-cream addiction story to argue that you can't break a habit by thinking your way out of it. The real problem is what your soul loves, not what your mind knows. True change requires retraining your affections, not just your arguments.
I'm gonna have to take control of my soul, and I'm gonna have to change what it loves. I asked the guy one time at the gym— let's say the guy's name is Marcus and he's 300 pounds overweight— and I say, Marcus, brother, you've gained a lot of weight since I saw you last. 450 pounds. You're a big boy. And he said, yes, I've been struggling. With what? Ice cream. Ice cream? You kidding me? You gained 300 pounds of ice cream? Yeah, I 70 gallons a day. Really? He's like, I'm trying to stop it. I am trying to stop. I said, do you hate ice cream? Oh, I mean, I hate, I hate, I hate what it does. I'm saying, but do you hate ice cream? Yeah, the things it does to me. No, do you, when you eat it, are you like, oh, like, do you hate it? And he's like, no, I love it. Now let's turn the analogy to ice cream to sexual sin. Do you hate ice cream? Oh, yes. You know, I hate it. No, you don't hate it. You actually love it because you're indulging in it. You're not accidentally indulging. You're purposely indulging. And so it's helping us realize I'm talking from my head and I'm going to have to realize the enemy trained me to talk from my intellect. I'm going to have to talk from my soul. But to talk from my soul, I'm going to have to take control of my soul and I'm going to have to change what it loves.
