Adamant by Lisa Bevere

Author:Lisa Bevere
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Christian Living;Christianity and culture;Rocks—Religious aspects;REL012130;REL012120;REL012000
ISBN: 9781493407248
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2018-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

What Do You Hate?

What you hate is probably something that frightens you. I am not a fan of snakes, spiders, or scorpions. I hate all three, but the worst are snakes. If I see a scorpion, I kill it. I became their sworn enemy when one stung my youngest son when he was four. (Warning: they pretend to be dead so they can sting you.) Spiders are a bit harder for me. The way they move freaks me out. I ask John or one of my sons to kill them. If no men are home, I take them on. Snakes are another story. You can’t kill a snake with a shoe. At least I don’t think so, but then again, I’ve never tried.

I write in a corner of our basement. On top of the hutch over my desk is a machete. Without scaring myself too much, I’ve decided that if I am alone and discover a snake in our house . . . I will attack. I will take blade in hand and, with a loud prayer in my mouth, kill it! I am committed to go for it because a snake cannot be allowed to roam my home and lay eggs. Why? Because people I love are in my house.

There are other things I hate. Things that threaten us all. I hate child sexual abuse. I hate sex trafficking of anyone of any age or gender. And I have never spoken to anyone who is not outraged by both of these. We know that these practices unmake both the victims and the predators. The cruelty and the perversion of them wound and fracture all those involved to their deepest core. Because we love people, it makes sense that we would hate the practice of both of these. But it is not enough to hate sex trafficking and sexual abuse. We must also hate pornography.

Why?

Pornography is the catalyst behind sexual abuse and sex trafficking. We cannot love, like, or even smile at pornography and truly hate sexual abuse and sex trafficking. To truly love the victims of abuse and trafficking, we must abhor the catalyst of abuse and trafficking . . . porn. To love well, we must hate what twists the souls of others into abusing and trapping children and women.

Porn debases love, unmakes intimacy, and degrades God’s good and wondrous gift of sex. It enslaves those God longs to set free. Knowing this, I have chosen to despise every form pornography may adopt (literature, movies, print, or online).

I must abhor what pornography does to love because what it does to love is evil. I abhor what pornography does to marriage. I’ve heard far too many stories of women who lie in bed wondering why their husbands will not touch them. They see themselves as less than desirable. If only they were more attractive, their husbands would want them. Then they learn they have a rival, a phantom of virtual sex who has corrupted their intimacy. Their husbands have already given their passion to someone online they don’t have to touch.

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