My Temptation!
This temptation can works both ways and we need to
understand in our lives whether we are on right temptation or wrong temptation.
Please turn with me Gen 2:15-16 - The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;
Here God put Man in garden of Eden to work it and keep
it and also commanded that Do not eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of
good and evil, the day you will eat of it you shall surely die.
And then God Created Women if we look the verses from
Gen. 2:18-22-The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. 22Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
I want to bring the light on one point which is our
hidden temptations -
As a human, we always attracted towards those things,
which we don’t have or don't have in our authority.
And this is most weak point of our lives.
When serpent said to the woman in Verse Gen 3:1 - Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
But woman replied to serpent in Gen.3:2-3- The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”
Here in verse 3 we can see the Purity of her soul and how much
she is in Obedience with God.
We also behave in very much same manner. - We go to Church, we attend the worship and have fellowship.
We do remain in very much in that Obedience or glimpse of that
impact which we receive from Word of God.
But the moment we enter in to the world and start
listening to that serpent ….he always used to say that----
“YOU WILL NOT SURELY DIE”
Gen.3:4- “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.
In fact he uses our Faith to destroy us.
what he says Gen.3:5- “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
And this point of time we just lost our selves.
I will not mention here what are the temptations we are surrounded
but we all know.
Be very much ALERT and CONSCIOUS about your surrounding and fellowship towards your TEMPTATIONS.
And we forget that God has already made us in His own
image now there is no other thing or process or fruit or wisdom need to have to
be like HIM as verse -
Gen 1:27 says - So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Temptations look so beautiful that we can
not stop our selves to go there -
Gen. 3:6- When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
And what had happen after this ... we all know.
But still our God is so good and merciful and Faithful that
after this He gave us the way to come out from that sin.
1Corinthians 10:13 - No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
Man has
a free choice of being faithful or unfaithful to God'.
Even satan encouraged Jesus to deviate from the
plan of his father by misusing his authority and privileges. Jesus used the
Holy Scripture to resist all such temptation.
I will encourage all of us through word
of God.
Romans 13:13–14 - Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. 14Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.
Romans12:21- Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
1Corinthians15:33- Do not be deceived: ‘Bad company ruins good
morals.’
My dear brothers and sisters, this is the time to understand your TEMPTATIONS and overcome with the STRENGTH of HOLY SPIRIT, God will surely help you in this.
May God Bless You.
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