![]() ![]() If he can destroy your husband and subsequently make you question your beauty or worth in Christ, he has won two battles. This is a lie from the devil and exactly what the enemy wants you to feel. If you’re feeling this or have felt this, stop right now! Over time, some began to blame themselves for not being attractive or interesting enough to keep his attention. I know several wives who were devastated when they found out their husbands were addicted to pornography. So what can women do to help their men fight this battle and actually win? Increases a tolerance for abnormal sexuality, including rape, aggression, domestic violence, and promiscuityĬan lead to depression, anxiety, and addictionĪnd while pornography is not exclusively a male or female problem, the emotional, mental, and spiritual effect it has on men is destroying their relationship with their spouses, their children, other men, and most importantly, God. Promotes sexual fantasy over meaningful relationship Whether occasional or frequent, we know that pornography: Satan has sharpened his most effective weapon and brought it to bear with unrelenting force on men in the church, and he’s not letting up. We cannot hide from it, and it’s becoming harder to protect our boys and teens from it, too. Psychology Today estimates that most children are exposed to pornographic material by the time they are eight years old.įrom explicitly sexual movies and TV shows to unfiltered social media, billboards, and high-speed internet, sensual imagery is everywhere. In fact, the younger he can trap men in the pit of porn addiction, the stronger his foothold becomes in their lives. Satan does not discriminate by age either. Women, I have news for you: you are not wrong to have felt this, and you are not alone. The consequences are too dire.īut for every man who is dealing with pornography or the onslaught of lust, I have spoken with just as many women who have felt hurt, betrayed, angry, sad, and even disgusted by the lustful thoughts and addictions of the men in their lives. We cannot afford to be so hands off, dismissive, or socially accepting of such a practice. It is also one of his most reliable weapons to drive a wedge between men and God. He uses porn to destroy relationships, cheapen sex, perpetuate the objectification of women, and dissolve the sanctity and strength of men in the church. Satan is using the proliferation of pornography to destroy. Lust is their Kryptonite, and as Hughes writes, “sensuality is easily the biggest obstacle to godliness among men today and it is wreaking havoc in the church.” So much of what has been written about lust, sexual sin, and pornography is directed towards men, and don’t get me wrong, men have a serious battle to fight when it comes to overcoming sexual sin in their lives. ![]() Kent Hughes writes in Disciplines of a Godly Man, “sweats sensuality from its pores.” It’s difficult to turn on the television or browse through social media today and not feel discouraged or overwhelmed by the surge of sexuality overwhelming our society. ![]()
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![]() Which side the Legacy members land on that Eternal Conflict between Angels and Demons is dependent on them. Only the highest leadership in the fragmented Legacy or those who stumble across their associations by accident know that the Eternal Movement is the God-Machine and its servants. ![]() The Eternal Movement continues as time passes. There they serve their enigmatic and alien master with complicity. Officially they are banned by the Diamond but many are Apostates in the fringes of mage society. Clockworkers who are skilled at disguising their mechanical nature (or eliminating those who become suspicious) have been known to infiltrate the order itself. One favored tactic is to infiltrate the ranks of the Labyrinth and steer the Sleepers toward the Austere’s agenda. Among these Austere, observing, disrupting and damaging the operations of the Guardians is a primary goal (since they are not willing to do what is necessary and the Order tried to wipe them out). Some Clockworkers do seek to improve the functioning of the Great Movement, based on their particular understanding of it. The first generation of the Austere cooperated closely as followers of a greater cause, but today many Clockwork Mages now operate solo, following a personal agenda that includes acts of wanton cruelty and violence intended to test or reinforce their lack of humanity. Murder, torture, terrorism and other immoral actions would be used s tools to shift the Eternal Movement into its proper configuration. Mages careless about Paradoxes would be eliminated Sleepers who glimpsed hidden truths would be sacrificed. While the Guardians nipped at the edges of the Abyss with their subtle and ineffective schemes, the Austere would seize control of it by spilling blood without hesitation or remorse. By replacing their body parts with superior mechanical analogs, the Austere would advance their detachment from their own humanity and increase their sympathetic connection to the Eternal Movement. He and his inheritors would need to become machines in fact as well as in outlook. They must reject all trappings of mercy and compassion, which obscure one’s ability to perceive and correct the flaws that prevent the smooth functioning of reality.įurther contemplation - or derangement - convinced the Prime Mover that simply attempting a detached, mechanistic view of Creation was not enough. ![]() To restore the smooth functioning of the Mechanism of Creation, he concluded, mages must become Austere: pitiless, free of sentiment, even machine-like in their outlook. In his view, the Abyss was a misalignment of key elements in this Eternal Movement (aka the Great Movement). The first of these Clockwork Mages, an agent of the Dragon’s Eye who became known to his followers as the Prime Mover, developed a metaphysics that envisioned the Tapestry of Creation and the Diamond Wheel as an immense and intricate clockwork mechanism. Theirs is a creed that eschews compassion and self-sacrifice, whose members seek to replace morality with machine-like detachment even as they modify their own bodies with mechanical constructs. The legacy of the Austere crossed that line long ago. Guardians must always be mindful of the line between necessary evil and self-serving cruelty. It’s a difficult way to live, balancing the positive virtues that the order expects all mages to pursue against the immoral actions required for the greater good. The Guardians of the Veil sacrifice their own moral status so that other mages are free to cultivate Wisdom. ![]() |
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