This summer
I learned how to fly fish. I’d fished the way most people fish all my life. Put
a worm on the hook, toss the line in the lake and wait for a nibble. Fly
fishing couldn’t be more different from that. Your rod and reel are different,
the way you cast is different and there are no worms. You don’t sit in a boat
or stand on a dock. You’re actually in the water with the fish. When you fly
fish you feel much more like a hunter stalking your prey. You have to be very
observant and you have to listen carefully to what’s happening on the river and
you have to be patient. All of this wouldn’t help you though if you used the
wrong type of fly (bait). Your fly has to mimic the type of bugs that the fish
expect to see floating on the water. And your fly better look pretty close to
the real thing or the fish won’t go for it. Your fly tricks the fish into
thinking it’s real a bug and BANG it takes the bait. Very soon after, when you
yank your reel to set the hook, the fish realizes he’s swallowed something
other than a bug. The fish tries to run but gets pulled back as you start to
reel it in. It goes for cover under branches and rocks hoping to get away but
you keep reeling it in. After putting up a good fight the fish gives up. You
scoop the fish into your net and the fish has lost its freedom.
The porn
industry is floating their flies down the river of the Internet. Their flies
look enticing to the kids watching them float by…beautiful woman doing things
they should not be seeing. Kids with desires they don’t fully understand strike
out at the flies thinking they’re the way to fulfillment. The porn industry
yanks back on the reel and the hook is set. But unlike the fish kids don’t
always know that what they’ve latched onto is a lie, a fake. Porn is not
reality and porn will never give them the true love an intimacy that they seek.
Some may try to run from it but their desires pull them back and eventually
some just give up the fight sinking deeper into a world that twists the beauty
of what God intended sex to be into a monster that knows no boundaries. They
become slaves to their addiction, their freedom is lost.
Parents, we
are often all that stands between our kids and a porn addiction. We provide the
computers and the Internet access but often we don’t watch what is floating
down the stream of the Internet; let alone do anything to prevent it. Get an
Internet filter and protect what comes into your home. Have “the talk” with
your kids about God’s design for sex. His design is true freedom and they need
to know how to spot the fakes.