Scantily clad women smile suggestively from poster advertisements. Sex sells; we know.
And summer inevitably means more exposed skin.
But when and how did these things become normal and accepted?
And how much is too much?
Budapest brags about being the new porn capital of Europe (many erotic businesses are moving here from notoriously naughty Amsterdam). Hungarian families are even rumored to watch porn together on TV.
Couples ages sixteen to sixty can’t seem to keep their hands off each other, especially on public transportation and park benches. Not a day goes by that I don’t see or hear people kissing while on the tram on my way across town.
Sex is everywhere in this city.
My teammates, too, have admitted to being adversely affected. We noticed that we were making inappropriate jokes with sexual innuendos, for example. The Word of the Lord warns, “But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving,“ (Ephesians 5:3-5).
We must guard our minds. But when those lustful whispers and visions come, we have got to take them “captive” and surrender ourselves again to the Lord, refocusing on “whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable,” (Philippians 4:8).
Praise God that the VICTORY has already been won!
join me in PRAYING
to break down and bind up those spirits of lust and impurity and
to loose spirits of true LOVE and PURITY.
Let’s also claim Jesus’ promises of HOPE for the Hungarian people.
