Nipate
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Enduring Temptation
Read for This Week’s Study:
James 1:12–21, Ps. 119:11, Gen.
3:1–6, Titus 3:5–7, Rom. 13:12, Eph. 4:22.
Memory Text:
“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when
he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath
promised to them that love him” (James 1:12).
We all have experienced it. We resolve not to give in to temptation,
but in the heat of the battle, our resolve melts and—
much to our own sense of shame and self-loathing—we fall
into sin.
Sometimes it seems that the more we focus on not sinning, the
more powerless against temptation we feel, and the more hopeless our
condition appears. We wonder if indeed we are saved at all. It’s hard
to imagine any serious Christian who hasn’t wondered about his or her
own salvation, especially after having just fallen into sin.
Fortunately, we can have victory over the temptations that so easily
ensnare us. None of us, no matter how enveloped in sin, is hopeless,
for our “Father of lights” (James 1:17) is greater than our propensity
to evil, and only in Him and through His Word can we have victory.
That’s the message from the verses we will study this week. Sure,
temptations are real, sin is real, and the battle against self is very real.
But God is real, too, and through Him we can more than overcome the
temptations that brew inside us, just waiting to take us down.