Article August 28, 1989 Issue

Sensualism has no power to overpower you

The Christian Science Monitor

We live in an age that sells sensualism as readily as toothpaste—and suffers greatly from the consequences. But no one has to resign himself or herself to sensualism or to fear that its hold is unbreakable.

I write this having just read about a young man who came close to destroying himself in an all-out effort to live "the good life." To me, three startling things surfaced out of the more obvious events of his immorality. They are the most convincing reasons I've found for making the effort to help ourselves and others refuse to have anything to do with sin in any form.

First, at the point this young man came to the conclusion that he had had enough, you sensed that he was facing a terrifying feeling of being separated from God and His goodness, from Love itself. Second, you could see how stunned he was to discover that "the good life" was actually destroying him. But perhaps the saddest thing of all is to see how sin eventually made him feel unworthy and useless.

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