Sin has reprogramed the mind in such a way that causes it to start thinking abnormally.
Therefore, you have to deprogram your mind first of the sinful mindset that has been influencing your behavior. And reprogram it according to Scriptures.
You do need to hold onto that truth. The mind wasn’t built to handle sin. When sin either compulsively or impulsively starts acting on the mind, it creates a deviant way of handling it. Sin influences the mind to behave in such a manner that goes against God’s intended purpose.
From a mental and spiritual level, people may understand this very behavior they are indulging in is sinful. However, since they’ve become trapped, when temptation kicks in, the mind starts behaving according to the deviant pattern that has been built into it.
This is the very embodiment of what the Bible calls a depraved mind.
In many cases, the brain interprets certain pleasures as a way of dealing with the emotional stress of life.
True and lasting satisfaction only comes from God, and by doing things according to His will. What sin does is creating a deceptive impression of what true satisfaction is all about which simply leads to enslavement.
For instance, those who were raised in a strict Christian family with deeply held biblical belief who didn’t have the freedom to have done what the flesh wanted them to do.
Once they’ve reached an age where they start enjoying things they were kept from enjoying, such as sexual immorality, they go in a rage trying to get every bit of pleasure they have lost.
They’ve come to find themselves in what they are doing. Sadly, some even say that one of their deepest regrets is that they didn’t get started much earlier.
That time they didn’t get to do what they are doing is all wasted in vain.
Many times, you sin just because you want to not because you’ve been under some type of pressure due to temptation.
—— Sinful Craving ——
A craving is a powerful or out of control instinctive desire pulling you toward whatever you’ve been wrestling with.
In other words, it’s such an intimidating and coercive desire driving people against their own will into a particular unwanted habit they had built a stong dependency on as something they needed to sustain themselves.
Craving is usually the result of some sort of withdrawal dependency when people have put a stop on a particular habit.
Furthermore, craving literally seizes people by highjacking the mind in order to drive them back into their behaviors.
One thing that craving does is causing people to lose a significant degree of their sanity. In their desperate attempt to make it go away, they’ll end up indulging in the same old, shameful, or destructive behaviors just to get through that unpleasant moment they find themselves in.
Cravings are made up of strong body sensations or feelings.
Cravings are simply made up of body sensations. There’s tightness, tension, and restlessness which ultimately leads to despair.
These body sensations come and go.
Whatever sinful behavior you’ve been feeding the brain with, it will create a strong desire to return to that habit.
The worst part of experiencing a craving is that it causes you to become hostile, indifferent, and ignorant toward your own strategy that you’ve developed to abandon such behavior. It overrides your own willingness to stick with that strategy.
The point is that you’ve come up with a plan as part of your overall strategy to deal with such habit, but you won’t even stick to it. How many times has that ever happened to many if you?
When going through a craving, your mind starts behaving so badly up to the point that it’s influencing you to stay away, walk away, or ignore just anything that you know that can help you deal with it.
That’s where desperation generally kicks in because what a craving does is trying to take over the very part of the brain that’s able to think and act.
No matter how intense the craving may be, and no matter how desperate things may get, you cannot do it unless you willingly choose to do so.
But here’s where the problem lies.
By the time you’ve become fully convinced that caving in is the only thing that can be done to get through that unpleasant situation; in other words, the moment that you’ve made that choice to set your mind on acting accordingly just to get a relief, you will instantly find yourself being profoundly at odds with God, His Word, the atonement of Jesus, the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, your desire to overcome such habit, and anything that truly matters to you.
That’s where the mind has reached a critical phase where it no longer wants anything to do with God. At that stage, you become careless about His Word. You don’t want to read the Word in order to get spiritual support.
You don’t want to even think about any biblical passage that goes against what you intend to do. The only thing becomes a top priority to you at that very moment is to get that instant fleshly relief.
You feel that you are being pulled away from just everything that can help you out toward the very act that sinful longing is leading you to.
Is that the end of it? Is there no turning back at all after reaching that point?
The answer is no. That desperate belief is being fuelled by your feeling. Your only hope of resisting a sinful craving is to not allow how you feel determines your response.
Don’t ever let your craving to pressure you to such a degree where you start pulling away from the things that can help you to overcome that self-defeating behavior.
The craving will make you ignore your own desire to break away from that habit. In other words, It will overpower your own desire for change.