Self Gratification
Greetings in Jesus mighty name, today am here to draw your attention on the act of self gratification what it meant and the danger of it in our our leave.
According to the dictionary self gratification the act of pleasing oneself or of satisfying one’s desires especially : the satisfying of one’s own sexual urges.
Every living creature seeks self-gratification as a matter of survival. We feel hungry, so we find food. We are thirsty, so we search for water.
According to Romans 8:12–13 the bible said if we live according to the flesh we will die, not only that our “flesh” is the selfish part of us that wants what it wants regardless of moral taboos. Self-preservation propels us to eat when we’re hungry; self-gratification suggests that we eat more than we need because it tastes good. Self-preservation drives us to build houses that keep us warm and dry; self-gratification drives us to build nicer, bigger houses than anyone else has. Self-preservation draws us to sexual union with our spouses to create intimacy and bring children into that intimacy. Self-gratification seeks the sexual act for itself, stripped from its design and purpose.
So how can will win over self gratification?
According to Galatians 5:16–25 we are required to work according to the spirit in this way we wont gratify our selfish desire.
Romans 6:1–6 also made us understand this “Do you not know that if you present yourselves nto anyone as obedient slaves,3 you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?”
So beloved in Christ I encourage you today not to live a self gratified leave but rather work by the spirit.
God bless you
Rev. Fredrick