Prostitutes: For a harlot is a deep pit; an adventuress is a narrow well. She lies in wait like a robber and increases the faithless among men.
Proverbs 23:27,28 RSV
For a prostitute is a deep pit and a wayward wife is a narrow well. Like a bandit she lies in wait, and multiplies the unfaithful among men… NIV
The harlot is a deep pit; an adventuress is a narrow well…
Psa 40:1-2 says, “I waited patiently for the Lord, he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the desolate PIT, out of the miry bog and set my feet upon a rock, making my way secure. “ By God’s grace, I’ve never had sex with a prostitute. But I have spent hours looking at pornography. In my fantasy world, I have fed my inner man and my soul with images of prostitutes at work.
Women and men who ‘star’ or perform in pornographic films are paid for their ‘work’, hence they are prostitutes. To watch them work and to derive sinful, sexual pleasure from them is in essence, visiting them; or having sex with them. Jesus said, ‘whoever looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with them in their hearts’.
I have been in the deep PIT of porn. I’ve been stuck there. Seemingly helpless, I was a slave to my passions and the pleasures of illicit, vicarious sex. I felt ashamed and guilty. I felt alone and isolated. The pit is a lonely place. Demonic voices hounded me day and night, accusing me of wrongdoing. I was always trying to hide my shame and true identity. Fear haunted me, fear of exposure and being rejected. Depression swept over me, discouragement was a constant companion. Hopelessness crept up on me, I felt that I would never be able to stop looking and lusting. My time and energies were being zapped by my fixation on lust. My soul was being corroded and my spiritual life was being sucked dry. Thoughts of suicide grabbed my attention.
For a harlot is a deep PIT…. The Lord is so gracious to us in spelling out the ‘cause and effect’ aspect of life. If you seek me, then you will find me. If you confess, then I will forgive. If you visit prostitutes, then you will be in a deep pit…
I pray that you would receive the grace of God and learn the wisdom of the scriptures. I pray that if you have never visited a prostitute, that you would quickly repent, crying out to God and taking the steps to get out of the pit. If you have visited one and are in a pit, take heart. Psa 40 says that God can deliver from someone who is in a PIT. Psa 103 says, ‘Bless the Lord O my soul, and all that is within, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord O my soul and forget not one of his benefits; who forgives all your iniquity, WHO REDEEMS YOUR LIFE FROM THE PIT.” There is REDEMPTION in Christ. There is salvation and rescuing. It only comes from the blood of Jesus.
Cry out to Jesus to save you from and to rescue you from whatever PIT that you are in. Please pray this for me also. It is not a good thing to be in a pit.
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Bob,
Thank you for accurately describing the feelings of “the pit”… it really amplified things for me from that Rom 7 “rut”– “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?”… even sweeter today is the answer– “Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!”
grace and peace.
P.S. – Your daily devotionals have become my purity vitamin. I really think you are awesome, but give all the glory to God!
Dear AJ,
Thanks. I have been praying for more feedback. It encourages me… I don’t like being in the pit. I didn’t like being in the pit for so long. Bless you! I heard you are moving to Mississippi…
Bob
Dear Bob,
You are not only out of the pit and seated with Christ in the Heavenlies, but you are pulling many, many brothers out of the pit along with you. I see you holding onto Christ’s hand at the top of pit and leaning way down in with your outstretched hand. When we link hands, it is Christ who actually exerts his energy to pull us back up and out. Bless you and thank you.
brk
Mississippi in Nov for a few years… already thanking God for the place that He will provide (as he always does).
grace and peace, aj
Thank you so much for writing this.
I am very much in the PIT and thought I was all alone in this and experiencing all these feelings. Boy you hit the nail on the head for me. I have felt all the emotions you described.
I am so thankful that God gave us a way out of the PIT through Christ.
It’s still a struggle every day though, but I suppose if I filled my head more with the thoughts of above I would be in better shape. =)
Amen Brisky, thanks for writing. We would all be in ‘better shape’ is we filled our heads with thoughts of Christ.