Why when you clean house, genuinely repent, and are walking with God, does the struggle persist?
Do your eyes automatically scan every woman that walks past? Is your mind still a cesspool of pornographic thoughts? Do you constantly pleasure yourself? The actions listed above are left over symptoms of a lustful heart that has run amok. They have become deeply ingrained habits.
Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified. - 1 Corinthians 9:25-27
What is needed now is divine self-control. You have allowed sin to rule for years, it is going to take years of discipline and training to break those habits and overcome the addiction.
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