You can have victory over temptation
Temptation is common to man and temptation itself is not sin. Here it is important to remember God’s commitment to us as found in 1 Cor.10:13:
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Whereas once we habitually entered into temptation, we can now habitually take God’s promised way of escape.
Jesus exemplified what it means to take the way of escape when He wastempted in the wilderness. He was tempted to turn the stones into bread and thereby meet His own needs His own way, rather than trusting the Father to meet them.
His immediate response to temptation was to submit to the Father’s will byredirecting His thoughts to what was true rather than how He felt. He answered the tempter by saying, “It is written…”
In the same way, the moment the Holy Spirit alerts us to wrong thinking, we can choose to submit our will to God’s and redirect our thoughts to what is true, rather than how we feel. Often there will be a momentary resistance to submit our will to God’s because of man’s natural tendency to exert his own will. “All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful but sorrowful. But afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.” (Heb.12:1). It is interesting to note that it was after Jesus submitted to God’s word that the angels came and ministered to Him.
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