Devotions
God has a great plan for our lives and his plans are greater than ours.
For I know the Plans I have for you, "declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11
| Devotions |
Author |
| Imagination Versus Inspiration | Pastor George K. Stephenson |
| After Surrender What? | Pastor George K. Stephenson |
| What Is the Good of Temptation? | Pastor George K. Stephenson |
| His Temptation and Ours | Pastor George K. Stephenson |
| Do You Continue to Go With Jesus? | Pastor George K. Stephenson |
| Mastered by God | Pastor George K. Stephenson |
| How big is your God? | Pastor George K. Stephenson |
| Kingdom of God | Pastor George K. Stephenson |
| Obedience | Pastor George K. Stephenson |
His Temptation and Ours
(Quick Study: Amos 6:1-9:15) "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." (Heb 4:15) Until we are born again, the only kind of temptation we understand is that mentioned by James "Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed." But by regeneration we are lifted into another realm where there are other temptations to face, that is, the kind of temptations our Lord faced. The temptations of Jesus do not appeal to us, they have no home at all in our human nature. Our Lord's temptations and ours move in different spheres until we are born again and become his brethren. The temptations of Jesus are not those of a man, but the temptations of God as man. By regeneration the Son of God is formed in us, and in our physical life he has the same setting that he had on earth. Satan does not tempt us to do wrong things; he tempts us in order to make us lose what God has put into us by regeneration, that is, the possibility of being of value to God. He does not come on the line of tempting us to sin, but on the line of shifting the point of view, and only the Spirit of God can detect this as a temptation of the devil. Temptation means the test by an alien power of the possessions held by a personality. This makes the temptation of our Lord explainable. After Jesus in his baptism had confirmed the vocation of bearing away the sin of the world, he was immediately put by God's Spirit into the testing machine of the devil, but he did not tire, he went through the temptation "without sin," and he retained the possessions of his personality intact. (Compiled from "My Utmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers)
Pastor George K. Stephenson
