Posted on November 12, 2014, in Pearls of Wisdom and tagged Mark Anthony Williams, Pearls of Wisdom, temptation, Temptation & Victory, temptation arising, victory, victory's horizon. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
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Amen brother…thanks for validating my zany attitudes and beliefs. :)
People like us are cut from a different cloth, but that’s a good thing.
You are fine, Brother – and anyway, who has it altogether? We all have our idiosyncrasies and without them things would be pretty tedious; the first disciples certainly did and they were handpicked to change the world. The body of Christ is going to have its problems, but it’s working through them together in the light of the Lord where maturity comes in – where we grow up together. I really do thank God for you, Brother; finding real people who are genuine is very rare these days.
Temptation is that plush leather couch at the finish line that beckons to the weary runner. It always appears to offer us what we think we need at the right time. This surely points to a designer as well. However this designer has our damage in mind not our good.
Absolutely right, Brother and his temptations are more ‘innocently’ luring the further on we go, but we can always count on the far-surpassing grace of God that outwits him.
Yeah, the assurance we have is Christ has:
1. Defeated the devil and removed his power and
2. Given us a way out of every trap that comes our way.
One thing I notice, is it doesn’t say we have a way around the trap, but through or out of. Maybe it’s just semantics, but it might makes sense that we have to go through this stuff, in order to draw out lessons and such for our own good.
No, no, it’s not just semantics – I totally agree with you. This is the kind of teaching that is seldom heard today and as you know, the mainstream heretical teaching is that we are to live ‘victorious’ (void of trouble) and prosperous lives, where as Scripture teaches that we must go through – not a little – but many tribulations to enter the kingdom of God. It is through adversity and the very things that shake us (ridding us of the dross of self and flesh) that our deliverance comes and yet it is not so much obtaining deliverance as much as God having a holy people unto Himself. Our flesh would opt for going around it, but through it we overcome.