1 Corinthians 10:13-14 (ESV)
“13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. “GOD IS FAITHFUL”, and HE will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation HE will also provide the way of escape, THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO ENDURE IT.
14 Therefore, my beloved, FLEE FROM IDOLATRY.”
Addictions can appear in a variety of ways that REMARKABLY difficult to identify. Since I am over three score years old, one might assume that I am able to identify when a weakness is trying to find a way to manifest itself in my mind, but so often temptation is upon me before I know it! When that occurs, I am usually living at a pace set by “this world” instead of WAITING ON THE LORD to guide my steps.
The Apostle Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 12:5-10 that THREE TIMES I pleaded with THE LORD to take this “messenger from Satan” from me!
“But HE said to me, "MY grace is sufficient for you, for MY POWER IS MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS." Therefore I WILL BOAST all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that THE POWER OF CHRIST may rest upon me”!
Although I am 6’6” tall and weigh 300 lbs and have been physically STRONG even beyond my knowledge, MY WEAKNESSES have always been something that I have had difficulty accepting. But James 4:7 instructs us to “RESIST THE DEVIL and he will FLEE from you”! The best way for me to RESIST THE DEVIL is to quote Philippians 2:10 which says “so that AT THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOW, IN HEAVEN and ON EARTH and UNDER THE EARTH”!
It can be very tempting upon sitting to relax to open a social media site, or watch the television, or read an article written by man. But when we are reminded that GOD desires to have us sharpening our hearts and minds with HIS WORD (Hebrews 4:12), only then can we SEE that HE wants us to acknowledge our weaknesses and let HIM be GOD! “GOD IS FAITHFUL”, but how FAITHFUL am I to be in Scripture? “GOD IS FAITHFUL” to continue mold us into vessels that GLORIFY HIS NAME (Isaiah 64:8-9)! “GOD IS FAITHFUL”!!!
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