Boyd K. Packer:
“President Joseph Fielding Smith told me of a repentant
woman struggling to find her way out of a very immoral life. She asked him what
she should do now.
In turn, he asked her to read
to him from the Old Testament the account of Lot’s wife, who was turned to a
pillar of salt. Then he asked her, “What lesson do you gain from those
verses?”
She answered, “The Lord will
destroy the wicked.”
“Not so!” President Smith said that the lesson for this
repentant woman and for you is “Don’t look back!”
Strangely enough, it may be that the simplest and most
powerful prevention and cure for pornography, or any unclean act, is to ignore
and avoid it. Delete from the mind any unworthy thought that tries to take
root. Once you have decided to remain clean, you are asserting your God-given
agency. And then, as President Smith counseled, “Don’t look back.” (Boyd
K Packer. Cleansing the inner Temple. 2010-0:74)
