Jeremiah 17:9 - The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
"All these things are voluntary actions is it really that hard to not do them?"
Well no I suppose not but if you sat a fat kid down alone in a candy store and told him it's not that hard he would probably agree,then stuff himself 4 seconds after you turned your back.
In all honesty I have enough crap floating through between my ears to deal with without adding the (to me at least) inevitable sexual fantasies that would be bashing the doors down should I spend a little too much time with an attractive woman that isn't my wife.
Good grief what a run on sentence,I need a cold shower.
I think,in my case anyway,that "he who trusteth himself too much trusts a fool" is a wise err on the side of caution.In fact,he probably came up with that from watching me.
Trust yourself isn’t about your heart, it’s about your brain. It’s all voluntary actions here, your heart doesn’t decide whether or not you doink that girl not your wife, your brain does, and that’s you. If you know it’s wrong then you have everything in your brain necessary to make the right decision.
That’s a kid. This is adult behavior. The kid often doesn’t know it’s wrong, best he knows is his parent might get upset. An adult knows it’s wrong. An adult in the candy store will generally make the right call. And if they make the wrong call it’s because they decided to.