• Written by clanthompson
• Category Daily Devotionals
• Views 358
• Comments 0

It is a good morning, because the Lord has made it. I will rejoice and be glad in it.

So, today, we are looking at temptation. James 1:12 says:

How blessed is the man who perseveres through temptation! For after he has passed the test, he will receive as his crown the Life which God has promised to those who love him.

This is the blessing we receive when we persevere through temptation. But how do we persevere?

Proverbs 5:8 has some great wisdom:

distance your way from her, stay far from the door of her house.

There are two things to deal with here.

1. Stay away from the temptation. Cut it out of our lives completely, lest we fall prey to it again.
2. Stay away from the door to temptation. The door represents the path to the temptation. We are to even avoid the things that would lead us to the temptation.

Let us submit our desires and ways to the Father today. Let Him guide our feet, and He will not lead us into temptation, but He will deliver us from evil (from the last part of the Lord's Prayer).

In Jesus' Name, Amen.

-A brother in Jesus