In the summer of 1983, Steve and Sandy had celebrated their first wedding anniversary. A week following their anniversary, feeling good about life and the future, Steve hopped in his 1973 Mercedes convertible for an afternoon ride along the coastline of sunny, southern California. 

He always loved to drive the Pacific Coast Highway and one of the lures was it provided a close-up view of L.A.’s beach culture. Though he didn’t intentionally set out to be girl-watching that day, Steve spotted an attractive young lady jogging toward him on the coastal sidewalk. His eyes locked in on this blonde. While nothing specific about her face registered with him, he was mesmerized by her gait in that seductive jogging outfit which consisted of a sports bra and spandex.

Then bam!

He had plowed directly into a Chevelle that had come to a complete stop right in front of him. Fortunately, he wasn’t traveling at too high a rate of speed, but the collision had damaged the front end of his Mercedes. And the fellow in front of him didn’t appreciate the considerable damage that had been done to his rear end. 

Nor could he tell the truth to his beautiful wife. That evening, he put a spin on his wreck. “You see, Sandy, it was stop-and-go, and I was reaching down to change the radio channel, and the next thing I knew I rammed into a Chevy. Lucky no one was hurt.” 

Steve continued in the darkness for another ten years before realizing he needed to make dramatic changes in the way he looked at women. 

Story taken from Every Man’s Battle, Arterburn & Stoeker, 
pp. 9-11.

SCRIPTURAL POINTS OF LIGHT

Exodus 34:7; Titus 2:2,6,12-14; 3:3; Matthew 5:28; Ezekiel 6:9; Mark 7:21-23; Acts 15:29; Romans 13:12-13; 1 Corinthians 5:11; 6:13,18; Galatians 5:16,19; Ephesians 5:3-4; Colossians 3:5-6; 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5,7; Hebrews 12:16; 13:4