Open Letter

A Letter to the Old Man I Used to Be

Take a long look at yourself in a mirror.

The lust of your flesh has become so strong in your life that you put it above everyone else in your life. God doesn’t matter; your wife doesn’t matter; the only thing that matters is your sexual gratification.

Who cares if the people in those porn videos you masturbate to are sex-trafficked, raped, or even killed? As long as you can masturbate and ejaculate, that’s all that matters. You are willing to put everything on the line, just so you can feel that few seconds of pleasure.

None of this makes any sense; you are acting like a madman, lost to insanity. You call yourself a Christian but have walked so far from your faith that your spiritual fruit looks blackened and dead. You feel completely out of control when you are scrolling through all those videos with your right hand and using your left hand to pleasure yourself. What have you become?

This is not who you are. Turn back to God; he is waiting for you. Pick up your Bible, dust it off, and get down on your knees and cry out to God! Once you emerge from this dark pit, you will see the light of God’s purpose. Your eyes will be opened to the truth:

You are a child of the Most High God. It’s time to start acting like it.

To My Younger Self,