Your Temptations

"The Bible was written for no other purpose than to afford help to people in just your condition; for there is no temptation come upon you but such as is common to man; and “God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” 1 Cor. 10:13.

Instead of becoming despondent, we are to “count it all joy when we fall into diverse temptations.” James 1:2. 

This shows that the very temptation itself, instead of being against

us, is a means of grace, if we look at it from God’s point of view. All power in heaven and earth belongs to Christ; and so even Satan, with all his wrath against the Lord, is but an instrument to carry out His purposes. “Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” Ps. 124:8. Nothing is too hard for Him.

Your trouble, in short, is this: You are trusting to yourself rather than to the Lord. 

I know it does not seem so to you, because you pray earnestly, and implore God’s forgiveness, and believe and even realize that He has forgiven you. 

Yet the fact that you invariably fall when the temptation comes, shows that you are not trusting the Lord for salvation; for we read, “The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble; and they that know Thy name shall put their trust in Thee; for Thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek Thee.” Ps. 9:9, 10." 

E.J. Waggoner