Want to keep your child from porn?

According to M. Scott Foster at ClearNote Fellowship, the battle is joined as early as the toddler years when a child desires dessert before eating his meal. Now this may seem counter-intuitive, but look closely and follow his logic; if a child never learns delayed gratification, he is an easy target for anyone whose business involves the appeal to instant gratification.

When one thinks of it, this has everything to do with not only pornography, but also overeating, any substance abuse, a lack of diligence at work--really any "bad habit" we know today.

Now of course, we need to be careful lest we believe that insisting little Rachel eat her brussels sprouts (or her daddy eat his) before getting ice cream will be a means of grace, but certainly we can use the opportunity afforded as a reminder to come to, and cling to, Christ--and thus avail ourselves of the other-worldly self-control spoken of in Galatians 5.