Masturbation- A Fallable Gaint

Masturbation- A Fallable Gaint

‘It is a habit I have cultivated since I was fourteen years old, I cannot stop it, it is my cross to bear, it is an addiction’ Folake said to herself trying to pacify her racing heart which refused slow down after been drowned in guilt.

Folake like many teenagers today had high hopes and aspirations while growing up, she was among the few of her peers that believed in keeping her body until marriage. Time passed,  flesh gaining grounds, she did not want to follow the band wagon by losing her virginity yet her inquisitive nature wanted to experience the pleasure her peers talked about. The social media was not helping matters, the internet has become sexually explicit, novels had fulfilled the quote ‘do not judge a book by its cover’, her friends where not helping matters.

And then Just Once, like Adam she tasted the ‘forbidden’ consoling herself after all I did not do it with a guy, and then she could not discontinue, this giant became a threat. It had become her source of inconsistency with God, her source of lack of concentration and her only excuse for not accomplishing her potential thus far then she remembered her pastors saying, ‘sexual immorality would either make you wise and you would desist or it would make you foolish’. Unfortunately, hers was a case of the latter, she had become foolish and gradually losing her conscience, masturbation had become a giant which was undefeatable in her eyes.

She loved God and was a dedicated christian she knew that this was the major reason she was not working in her full potentials, she felt helpless, she knew she was no different from others who had lost their virginity, she appeared decent but was felt dirty when people called her decent and when parents used her as an example to instruct their children.

Counselor Morayo took to the podium during the youth Sunday and her first sentence was ‘you say you truly love your Father yet you stab him at his back and then come to his front and say am sorry!’ ‘a paper and red ink test would help us see the impact of our unfaithfulness, put a red ink on the same plain paper every time you commit sexual immorality knowing in your heart that you had the power to avoid it’ ‘some people have spent above ten years of their life on this earth yet their brain still function like that of a day old baby who lacks will power’.

Knowing that those words were mean for her, she hid her head in shame and with her heart racing with guilt. She remembered what her pastor always says ‘have you asked the Holy Spirit?’ and she took the first step, she resolved that just like David conquered Goliath with catapult and stone, she was going to battle masturbation with ‘the holy spirit and  strong will’ once will is backed by the holy spirit what can be a road block! She said to herself.

It was not an easy task bit gradually she began to hate everything that had the tendency to pollute her spirit and kill her resolve, the red ink on paper served as her means of self-examination and the word of God never departed from her lips. She became victorious! The giant has been conquered.

 Advice yourself today, test your will and mix it with the Holy Spirit’s touch! You would be victorious.