Trivial delights can weaken us and steal our capacity for joy

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My conviction is that one of the main reasons the world and the
church are awash in lust and pornography (by both men and women—
30 percent of Internet pornography is now viewed by women¹⁰) is that
our lives are intellectually and emotionally disconnected from the infi-
nite, soul-staggering grandeur for which we were made. Inside and outside
the church Western culture is drowning in a sea of triviality,
pettiness, banality, and silliness. Television is trivial. Radio is trivial.
Conversation is trivial. Education is trivial. Christian books are trivial.
Worship styles are trivial. It is inevitable that the human heart, which
was made to be staggered with the supremacy of Christ, but instead is
drowning in a sea of banal entertainment, will reach for the best natural
buzz that life can give: sex.
Therefore, the deepest cure to our pitiful addictions is not any mental
strategies—though I believe in them and have my own (called
ANTHEM¹¹). The deepest cure is to be intellectually and emotionally staggered
by the infinite, everlasting, unchanging supremacy of Christ in all
things. This is what it means to know him. Christ has purchased this gift
for us at the cost of his life. Therefore, I say again with Hosea, “Let us
know; let us press on to know the LORD” (Hos. 6:3).

Sex and the Supremacy of Christ, pg.44