Fornication is one of the terrible sins. This sin is born when a person is lost — he wanders in the dark and cannot find himself. Therefore, one must get rid of fornication not only through prayer and repentance, but also through searching for oneself, one’s values and principles of life. By the way, you can also use prayers to find the truth and yourself. Prayers can be considered a cure and a cure for all ills if you pray sincerely and correctly. To renounce fornication, you need to ask the Lord to protect and protect yourself.
Fornication is given as a punishment for pride
If a person behaves proudly, exalts himself above others, then you want to upset and shake him. This is why fornication and shame are sent to him — like a bitter pill into his “sweet” life. It is not clear why fornication is a punishment for the proud. Because fornication is a shame. When a proud man is disgraced, his pride diminishes and diminishes. Each time it becomes less, so a person comes to the realization that being proud is not so convenient. Fornication reveals and points out imperfections, therefore it works in relation to the proud and helps them shake up their consciousness and come to the truth. When a person is held hostage by fornication, at first he experiences misunderstanding and some kind of anger because of the shame. It may seem to him that life has lost its meaning. That is why it is so important at such moments not to close yourself off from the world, but, on the contrary, to overcome yourself and repent. Repent and improve. To repent before the Lord, you can read a prayer for forgiveness.
What to do to get rid of fornication?
To fight fornication, you must first realize that its guides are the eyes and the tongue. A person condemns with his tongue — he shows pride and selfishness. Therefore, he receives punishment for this in the form of fornication. Through the eyes a person sees and is tempted. For example, when you go to your email to check emails, but end up on another page. On this page you see obscenity, depraved images that are imprinted in the memory. It’s difficult to get rid of them.
Therefore, you need to protect yourself from the filth around you, avoid unpleasant images in time, and not judge others. When you can do this, pray to the Lord — repent, accept your mistakes and try to correct them. Prayers will help you gain God’s support — then the path of healing will become easier. If images haunt you, you cannot stop thinking about fornication, then turn to the Lord like this: “Lord, give me chastity, please.” Of course, if you ask for help in your thoughts, but repeat to yourself “Not now, but later,” then chastity will not come. You need to find within yourself a true desire to be healed from sin, and not shift everything to the Lord.
Don’t despair if it’s difficult at first. A person’s essence is not simple — even if he understands that this is wrong and disgusting, he can still desire sin. So you need to be patient — if you take two steps forward but one step back, don’t be angry with yourself. Keep going and soon you will stop going backwards, you will begin to see the results and you will begin to fight sin even harder. You also don’t get rid of the disease in a couple of days, especially if it’s severe; it’s a long journey that can take a month or even a year. The main thing is not to give up.
Archpriest Andrey Tkachev
Saint Charitable Foundation Earth
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