Refraining from pouring ever finer gas on ever finer fire

 Matthew 5:28 - King James Version (KJV)

<28> But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Hebrews 13:4 - King James Version (KJV)

<4> Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Suppose that you commit adultery and the less serious but still enslaving fornication in your heart. What do you do about this problem? You proceed in an orderly fashion from outer to inner to still more interior.

You cease to engage in literal, exterior adultery and fornication if doing so.

You cease to engage in any hard porn and then any soft porn and then softest porn if you are doing so; the difference is like between a porn video and a bodybuilding or female model exhibition. 

You cease to pour gasoline from the helicopter onto the forest fire that has engulfed the campground.

Then you cease to slosh gasoline around the fire that has engulfed your campsite.

Then you cease to pour gas around the stone fire circle.

Then you cease to mist that fire with gasoline; and so on asymptotically and still more interiorly, ever more subtly and finely keeping one's vessel.

Once you have purified the external sufficiently to purify the internal, practice banishing sexual imaginations, inner pornography. The slightest effort at banishing such thoughts can have a lasting benefit; can make it perceptibly easier to banish. 

That which had solidity of hellish delight becomes with diligent shunning  a  shadow that attenuates towards the periphery of the emanating present of your conscious will. 

"Resist the devil and he will flee from you".

There is after a time a noticeable decoupling of the sexual impulse from the lascivious imaginations forbidden to us, each to the degree that each person can attain. 

"Better the sight of the eyes than the wicked desires of the heart."

There is ever finer gas not to pour on ever subtler fires; and as these fires of hell, these images that cause jealousy in the temple of the human of our Lord, depart in a huff, God moves in with loving fires of His own in proportion, no longer jealous but presented with clean lodgings.

You *would* like God's guest room to be clean, would you not...? You would rather He had clean towels, sheets, and carpets and actually wanted to extend His reservation, right? Splendid, because He is no more thrilled with bedbugs roaches and mice than you are. "He that would have friends must show himself friendly; and there is a Friend that sticks closer than a brother." 

Godspeed, Christian.

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