The Crisis of Purity Among Men

Holy Lord, I have sinned times without number, and been guilty of pride and unbelief, of failure to find Thy mind in Thy Word, of neglect to seek Thee in my daily life. My transgressions and short-comings present me with a list of accusations, but I bless Thee that they will not stand against me, for all have been laid on Christ. Go on to subdue my corruptions, and grant me grace to live above them. Let not the passions of the flesh nor lustings of the mind bring my spirit into subjection, but do Thou rule over me in liberty and power.
I thank Thee that many of my prayers have been refused. I have asked amiss and do not have, I have prayed from lusts and been rejected, I have longed for Egypt and been given a wilderness. Go on with Thy patient work, answering 'no' to my wrongful prayers, and fitting me to accept it. Purge me from every false desire, every base aspiration, everything contrary to Thy rule. I thank Thee for Thy wisdom and Thy love, for all the acts of discipline to which I am subject, for sometimes putting me into the furnace to refine my gold and remove my dross.
No trial is so hard to bear as a sense of sin. If Thou shouldst give me choice to live in pleasure and keep my sins, or to have them burnt away with trial, give me sanctified affliction. Deliver me from every evil habit, every accretion of former sins, everything that dims the brightness of Thy grace in me, everything that prevents me taking delight in Thee. Then I shall bless Thee, God of jeshurun, for helping me to be upright.  (The Valley of Vision, Confession and Petition).

There is a crisis of purity among men these days.  It has to do with pornography, lust and personal habits with harmful sexual thoughts.  We must understand with a deep conviction that pornography is a threat to the family.  It is a threat to the innocence of children and the marriage bed altogether.  We must live with a conscious conviction of seeking purity in our walk with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  If we live in isolation in gazing at pornography, we will hurt our relationship with our family, friends, children and the Christian church.  We must be held accountable for our actions, thoughts and words.  

It is a good thing to repent of our spiritual crimes of gazing at adult pornography.  We must repent because we recognize that we have done wrong.  There may be a case of deep lust that carries us away for a short time from intimacy with Jesus Christ, but we must live everyday afresh and in faithful repentance.  If we live in repentance of our spiritual crimes of adult impurity, we will grow in humility with our relationship with our God Jesus Christ.  We ought to fight for purity and stand on the rock of our God.  There is so much impurity in the world today.  Impurity is on television, magazines and the Internet.  

The odds are that we have fallen into sin.  We have broken God's commandments.  We have fallen from grace.  We have trodden down the Son of God under our feet.  We have intentionally and deliberately sinned in God's face and we have provoked the Almighty to anger, chastisement and chastening upon us.  

We ought to pray for America that God brings her back to a place of purity.  We ought to pray for a marriage bed of purity, children of purity and a walk with God that is par excellence.  We probably should have more good works than evil works, because we should always end with a prayer of repentance.  We ought to seriously inspect our lives for impurity and destroy it wherever it raises its ugly head.  There is no doubt that impurity which is deep lust is a picture of ugliness.  

The only way we can escape is through responsibility and a serious and deep desire to live right before God.  It may take some time, but He is there to help us.  He has come not to destroy us but to help the sons and daughters of Abraham.  There is nothing good that dwells in our flesh, but only goodness comes from God alone.  We ought to pray for God's goodness to cover us and overshadow us.  I think there is not a righteous man on earth that does not sin.  We ought to rightly comprehend that godliness is turning from sin to God and asking for pardon to live out holiness by the working of love in our hearts.