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Please open your Bible and read:
(Hebrews 5:7 – 8 )
Often when the word temptation is mentioned, we immediately think of sexual temptation. But temptation is a broad subject.
It has to do with the deeds of the flesh and is most often associated with self – will and self – desires. A cruel, short response to someone’s question can do temptation’s bidding. Gossip, anger, or yielding to feelings of unworthiness all lead along temptation’s pathway.
Anything that separates us from God – habits, desires, feelings – is evidence of the tempter’s handiwork. Each of us is vulnerable, but no one has to yield to temptation. Believers have God’s Spirit living within them – a force that is much more powerful than any attack from the tempter’s hands. Therefore, you do not have to yield to temptation. You have a choice. You can say no!
Temptation is an opportunity for obedience. And obedience always leads to blessing. Pray that you would be made sensitive to God’s Spirit whenever you feel the attack of the enemy threatening. Realize there is a learning process involved in obedience.
Times of spiritual failure are not wasted when we ask God to teach us how to be strong in our faith. This is how we grow and learn to avoid future temptation.
About the Author
This devotional was written by Dr Charles Stanley. Read more about him here: http://www.talk.thelife.com/authors/charles-stanley
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It has been my experience that when I am tempted, it is indeed an opportunity to obey. I know it but don’t always
respond the right way. The Father is so patient with me.
Only recently have I began to understand that I should resist the temtation to induldge fear or anger when things
threaten me or don’t go my way. The choices are clear, but
the feelings are strong from the flesh. little by little
I am able, by yielding to the Holy Spirit, to endure the trial, trusting that God won’t allow me to be tempted beyond
what I am able to bare. The times I am successful build
endurace and character. Whe I fail and repent, He picks me
up again. Some how in this process I grow, gradully seeing
more victory than defeat. It helps when you dare to belive
that He really does have your best interest in mind, even
when he allows the trials.