Temptation is often like that cheesy salesman who tries to sell you a lemon but talks about it like it’s the greatest car in the world. You only find out on your drive home and you end up stranded along the side of the road. You wind up riding shotgun in the tow truck and shaking your fist at that fiend who duped you into taking the deal. But God shows us there’s a better way.
Proverbs 14:12: “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Like the sale which seems too good to be true, temptation can exhibit the appearance of right while being destructive all along. The deception begins with appearances and ends in a trap. Those negatives we too easily dismiss in light of positive appearances end up being our downfall. Our shortsightedness gets us into trouble because we’re only looking at the ‘right now’ and forgetting the ensuing consequences. But that’s what sin does; it only shows us the here now and obscures the larger picture.
James 1:15: “Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” Sin begins with a sweet taste but has a bitter result in the end. But we don’t have to allow the process to be brought to a full end. We have the power to stop things before they begin. It’s when our lustful desires give rise to a thought or action that sin is conceived. But just being tempted doesn’t mean we have given into temptation. If we can stop the process here we don’t have to see the ugly results bear fruit in our lives.
1 Corinthians 10:13: “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” It’s at least comforting to know that in the area of temptation we’re not dealing with anything that no one has dealt with before. And if God has helped other people overcome these temptations then He will certainly help us. As overwhelming as the temptation may seem, God is always faithful to provide us a way out of it. Our most productive choice is to immediately look to Him in these times.
Galatians 5:16: “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.” Because our human desires are constantly trying to take over and run our lives, it requires us to be led and walk in the Holy Spirit. Sin becomes an impossibility when living a Spirit-led life, for He will never lead us into a carnal path of error. A mind filled with the things of the Spirit has not room to be filled with anything else. The direction and purpose of your life is consumed by the things of God. All other thoughts are seen as a distraction and diversion from the mind of God and His will for our lives.
James 4:7: “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” A powerful disinfectant to sin is a life submitted unto God. Without it we’re fighting a fight we cannot win. Our submission to God first puts us in position to resist the devil. This submission to God strongly states what side we’re on—the planting of our flag on the hill of truth. For we can’t resist something if we’ve become a party to it. It’s in humbly submitting to God where our power to live a victorious life resides. With this power we resist and the devil has to flee. And when we recognize those temptations as all glitter but no gold, we’re seeing the bigger picture and not just the one the enemy wants us to see.
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Proverbs 14:12: “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”
James 1:15: “Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”
1 Corinthians 10:13: “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”
Galatians 5:16: “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”
James 4:7: “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”