Ever had to go through a struggle? Ever had to make it through some challenges? Ever had to deal with trials and tribulations? Ever had to confront troubles and obstacles? When you retell the story where do you focus? Focus on the win! Focus on the victory! Focus on how God got you through it! Focus on how it was God’s victory that allows you today to focus on the win!

Let’s turn to our devotional for today and grab hold of what it has to say as we continue to make our way through Psalm 68:

Fallen Heroes: A Devotional for Dads Who Struggle With Porn

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This is a reading plan for dads who want to quit porn. It was written by Keith Rose, a content creator at Covenant Eyes. Fallen Heroes looks at Psalm 68 to re-orient your perspective and teach you how to break free. It challenges you to think about heroism in a completely different way.

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Scripture for Today’s Devotional:

When you aren’t sure where to start, turn to God’s Word! When you aren’t sure what to do, turn to God’s Word! God’s Word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our paths! God’s Word is active and alive and sharper than a double-edged sword able to cut to the core and to the center of the situation!

Let’s be the dads who remember God’s commands! Let’s be the dads who remember God’s promises! Let’s be the dads who remember God’s instructions! Let’s be the dads who remember God’s victories!

Let’s be the dads who remember the experiences! Let’s be the dads who remember what we experienced! Let’s be the dads who remember that it was all because of God! Let’s be the dads who can live in God’s victories! Let’s be the dads who remember God’s victories that came because He commanded them and we responded out of obedience! Let’s be the dads who celebrate God’s victory and give Him praise, honor, and glory!

Today’s devotional has been provided to us by Covenant Eyes.

Reading through today’s devotional, here are some takeaways for me: (check out the devotional on your own too to see if you pick up other nuggets, and please share your findings in the comments)

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Takeaways from Today’s Devotional:
Fight the good fight and receive “The “spoils of victory” are the blessings we experience from God’s salvation“

• Ever been to war? Ever been in a battle? Ever had to fight? Ever chosen to retell the story?
• How did the story go? Were you safe back home? Were you getting to “relish in the spoils of victory“?
• Today’s devotional gives us an example to ponder and consider when it says:
  • “Kids, let me tell you something. Your dad isn’t perfect. I’ve got to be honest, I’ve struggled with looking at stuff I shouldn’t. There were years where I kept this a secret and didn’t tell anyone. I want to tell you this so you can avoid the mistakes I’ve made. I want you to know you can tell me if you’re struggling too.”
• Let’s be the dads who realize our audience and as such that telling our story “requires great discretion and care“!
• Let’s be the dads who choose “to focus on the victories“!
• Let’s be the dads who choose not “to include unnecessary details“!
• Let’s be the dads who make sure to share that it was a battle and that we’ve had to fight!
• Let’s be the dads who let them know it’s not easy and was quite hard!
• Let’s be the dads who also share that there were some losses in the midst of the battle and that we weren’t always victorious through the process and the time!
• Let’s be the dads who point them back to God because “the “spoils of victory” are the blessings we experience from God’s salvation“!
• Today’s devotional points to Psalm 68 and how we need to be the dads who when we “recount the victory that God has secured for them, their families will be blessed” just like how “in Psalm 68, we see the wives back home enjoying all treasures that were won in the battle“!
• Let’s be the dads who end our stories by pointing our wives and kids and the world to God!
• Let’s be the dads who don’t try to take credit because we “succeeded or failed on our own“!
• Let’s be the dads who cling to the example of God’s Word and as we see, “Psalm 68 makes it clear that our war stories should always point back to God. We do this by connecting our own stories to the story in God’s Word.“!
• Let’s be the dads who turn to God’s Word as our source and our foundation of truth!
• Let’s be the dads who turn to God’s Word as our source and our foundation of wisdom!
• Let’s be the dads who turn to God’s Word as our source and our foundation of direction and instruction!
• Today’s devotional closes with the following thought and reflections:
  • “Verse 11 says, “The Lord gives the word.” The Word of God is the ultimate blessing. Particularly, when you battle with sin—like porn—and apply the promises of God’s Word. My own dad did this for me with Romans 6. We memorized this passage as a family when I was very young, and for years afterward, I would recite these verses when I was tempted with lust.”
    • Romans 6 says:
      • ‘Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace? Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it? Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death? For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives. Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was. We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin. And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him. We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. When he died, he died once to break the power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God. So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus. Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful desires. Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God. Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace. Well then, since God’s grace has set us free from the law, does that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not! Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living. Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have given you. Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living. Because of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the obligation to do right. And what was the result? You are now ashamed of the things you used to do, things that end in eternal doom. But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.’ Romans 6:1-23
  • “Reflection:”
    • “1. Tell your “war stories” with sin to your kids. They need to learn about the fight, and there’s no better way to learn than from their dad.“
    • “2. What’s a passage of Scripture that relates to your story? Share this with your family and memorize it with them. “