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 |
What Is the Good of Temptation?
"There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man." (1Corinth 10:13) (Quick Study: Amos 1:1-5:27) The word "temptation" has come down in the world; we are apt to use it wrongly. Temptation is not sin, it is the thing we are bound to meet if we are men. Not to be tempted would be to be beneath contempt. Many of us, however, suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer, simply because we have refused to let God lift us to a higher plane where we would face temptations of another order. A man's disposition on the inside, i.e., what he possesses in his personality, determines what he is tempted by on the outside. The temptation fits the nature of the one tempted, and reveals the possibilities of the nature. Every man has the setting of his own temptation, and the temptation will come along the line of the ruling disposition. Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good. Temptation is something that completely baffles me for a while, I do not know whether the thing is right or wrong. Temptation yielded to is lust deified, and is a proof that it was timidity that prevented the sin before. Temptation is not something we may escape, it is essential to the full-orbed life of a man. Beware lest you think you are tempted as no one else is tempted; what you go through is the common inheritance of the race, not something no one ever went through before. God does not save us from temptations; he helps us in the midst of them. {Heb 2:18} (Compiled from "My Utmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers)
Pastor George K. Stephenson
