Honoring Women
Dear Champions,
The short excerpt is by Andy Stanley, and the scripture is Philippians 4:8. Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
Pornography is bad for you and it’s a sin against you, your marriage, and your girlfriend or wife. Research has come out from people that don’t claim to be Christians telling us that something actually begins to change chemically in a man’s mind. This is destroying marriages. Real women can’t compete with images, and pornography may actually be a pathway that leads you to view women as a commodity
The new research is showing that pornography is essentially a drug that deadens your desire for real women. The tragedy is that there are a bunch of single guys that thought all of that need that those images have met for them would one day be met by their wife. You are surrounded by married men who thought the same thing, and they kept going back to porn. When their wives found out about it they were heartbroken. They wake up every single day thinking, “I’ve got to compete with a thousand women that don’t even really exist.” Over time porn will destroy your own desire for a real woman.
If you met a woman that you really respected a whole lot (maybe a famous actress, etc.), you would defer to her. Defer means, “You have that chair. Let me get that for you. Let me hear your story.” You would honor her. Men, that’s how you are to treat every woman that you ever meet because they’re all made in the image of God and their heavenly Father is your heavenly Father. You know how to honor her. It’s the girl at the office, the lady in the neighborhood, it’s all of them.
I’m going to suggest to some of you single guys that you no longer date until one year from today, so you can spend that year renewing your mind. You come to church, read, sit and absorb, and you change your passwords and give them to a friend and tell him that there are some places that you can’t go. You get rid of some media, and you clean out your play list. In that year you will change the way that you treat women and the way that you think about women. You will be a different person. You will have put away the ways of childhood, and you will have finally grown up to become the man that God created you to become and called you to be.
Champions, have a great week!-David Vining
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