St Paul the Porn Addict

To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."
2 Corinthians 12:7-9

Of course, we don't know what Paul's thorn was (and I don't think internet porn was a big thing in his day), but, as I was reminded of these words while reading Max Lucado, my initial thought was 'Maybe Paul was a sex addict?'

Is it coincidence that top of Lucado's list of potential 'thorns' was Sexual Sin?

No doubt the wording is vague so that we can all relate to Paul's problem, and take comfort in the fact that such a man of God can relate to our own troubles. (And that's all I'm doing; I have no great revelation that he was, in fact, any kind of sex addict.)

But Paul was a man; a man who wrote much on the subject of sexual immorality during his ministry. A man who shows me that men have long faced this struggle, the struggle against their own sexual nature. A man who had his fair share of issues, whether or not they were anything to do with sex. But a man who was used - and still is used - by God.

I guess my point is that there's hope for all of us.

Wednesday: Tempted to look a couple of times, but no porn, no MB, no borderline activity.