Sexual temptation starts small, often with mindless scrolling, and pulls you in gradually. The answer isn't to resist or debate it but to flee: put the phone down, skip the provocative texts, avoid the houses and content that trigger you.
When there's that battle that begins to rage within you, your flesh craves one thing, but deep in your spirit, you know you ought to do another. When you're mindlessly scrolling on a social media platform where you know you can find some things that will satiate that ungodly hunger in you, that's when the battle begins to take place. Temptation is not an event, it's a process. Little by little, the enemy will reel you in. But when you say no, when you put away your phone late at night and say, I'm not going to scroll mindlessly because I know what that leads to. When you say, no, I'm not gonna respond to that text message. No, I'm not going to go to that house. No, I'm not going to get into the social media messages and see what's been sent to me. Instead, I'm going to flee from that. I'm going to resist that. Win the battle for your sexual purity by fleeing from temptation, not debating with it, not lingering and hoping that you can gain strength over it, but keeping yourself out of situations where you'll be tempted in the first place.
