God’s Promise to Us

“Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall. No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.” 
1 Corinthians 10:12-13

According to 1 Corinthians 10:13, it is a common thing to experience temptation. We all face it from time to time. From Scripture we have a promise with which to face all temptation. All temptation has a divinely designed limitation set upon it. When we begin to deal with our temptations from that point of view, they lose their overwhelming appearance.

Paul addressed this reality when writing to the Roman Christians. He said, “Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts” (Romans 13:13-14).

Do not allow yourself to side with temptation in any form. Get rid of any physical objects which tempt you to sin. Clean house. Defend yourself, Christian. Get rid of the offense.

“Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.”
                                                                                    -John Bunyan