ESOCS Devotional 26 September 2021
TEXT: LUKE 4:1-15
MEMORY VERSE: “Resist the devil and he will flee from you”(James 4:7).
Temptation means to entice or lure someone to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong or immoral. To attract, appeal strongly to or invited. To put (someone) to the test in a venture some way; provoke to tempt one’s faith.
The biblical meaning of temptation is that it is a trial in which man has a free choice of being faithful or unfaithful to God. Satan nudged Jesus in the effort to make Him deviate from the plan of the Father, by cleverly trying to make Him lose His authority, as the One from whom all creation must take instructions, and to whom they must bow.
The objective of the evil one is to make people disobey the word of God, and fall into sin. He leads people into the “the lust of the flesh” in which they derive satisfaction from the sins they commit or the wrong things they do. In the process, they walk in the ways of the world, and not in the ways of God.
The matter is about that moment when you have savoured the juicy morsel and like the taste. You clamp dawn your jaws and suddenly feel the sharp piercing desire for more and a forceful tug towards deliberate wilful sin. Then, you realize you have swallowed a hook and the angel is reeling you in your better judgment and God’s word and the Holy Spirit are whispering. “No!” But your appetites and emotions are screaming “Yes!”
For our Lord Jesus, He remained strong and resolute at His tempting hour. He submitted Himself to the Father, and resisted the devil three times, and the devil flew away from Him (James 4:7).
We are challenged to be like Him and do exactly what He did, when we enter into our tempting hours too.
- Endeavour to overcome temptations. It will make you holy.
- Lord, give the wisdom and power to conquer tricks of the devil.
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FURTHER READING: Jonah 1:16; 1 Kings 8:1-20; 1 Corinthians 12:1-15
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ESOCS Devotional 26 September 2021
