So Tempting

 So Tempting
We all face temptations in life, sometimes daily and sometimes it arrives unexpectedly, but they do come. It can be described as enticements, troubles, or trials. Satan doesn’t walk up to you, throw you over his shoulder, and carry you to the sin, he entices. He woos you a little at a time. Just like the fisherman with a lure. It isn’t the real thing, but a copy of something tasty, something good, something pleasant, but hidden there is the hook with barbs that pirce and hold on. It is a trap, a thing that bites, a thing that has consequences.
Temptation is the thing that often comes as a testing to see if we will keep our integrity. “Who will it hurt? Who will see it?” Satan asks as he whispers in our ears. “No one is looking.” It could be the lust of the flesh, greed for something that isn’t ours, or to try the taste of drugs or alcohol. Sometimes it causes us to move just one step closer to sin’s trap.
Temptation is sometimes a constant. It becomes an always present trial, hovering like a lion, waiting for an opening, waiting for the smallest weakening in our resolve. It can become persistent, seemingly growing stronger the more we resist it. Sin’s allure often seems pleasant with nothing to fear, but Satan doesn’t play fair. He plays for keeps.
But we have a companion that is faithfully at our side. We will never have to fight the battle on our own. God will give us everything that we need to escape and resist it. He will always enable us to have the victory. 1 Corinthians 15:57, “But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
God gives us an example of how to handle temptation of when Potiphar’s wife attempted to cause Joseph to sin. First he refused. She still persisted. Joseph recalled all that he had been taught about a holy righteous God and ran from the temptation. He was falsely jailed for his resisting sin, but God restored Joseph and rewarded him by raising him up to an even higher position.