The sword drops here for sure. When you keep your sexual conversations, behaviors, pornography, or masturbation a secret you are in agreement with darkness. You cannot kill something you embrace. When you start lying, your sword is protecting lust and sin. Men protect what they love. When you protect lust and your sexual sin, your sword is down.
A lack of accountability is always a sign of a dropped sword. This combined with sexual independence, is a big sign. A man in this defenseless position is easy pickings for the enemy of our soul and our family.
A man with these characteristics is more likely to see himself very vulnerable to sexual temptation. A sword down is like telling the devil to come on and take his best shot.
Most of us don’t want to see ourselves as the warrior in a sword down position. You, I hope, want to be a clean warrior and a man who not only keeps himself clean, but protects his family, his brothers and leaves a legacy of a clean life.
You deserve to be a clean man. Let me share with you some of the characteristics of men I have seen who have their sword facing the enemy, alert like Gideon’s men at the water (Judges 7).