This world is full of temptations that the children of the world seek. We give these thoughts consideration and we worry because we want things like money, cars and the material to help us survive.We become envious and greedy of what others have because of temptations.When Jesus was in the desert He was tempted by the evil one with things of this world. He told Satan to get behind Him.The temptation offered by Satan were all about the world and the things of this world. Jesus knew that Satan offered a temptation of evil power and didn't have to entertain these thoughts. He knew he could flee and tell Satan no!We can learn to say no to temptations also.We usually get entrapped in thoughts and take action against the evil doers.The temptation is not a sin but the action we might take lead us into sins. The action is of the flesh in most cases we do something we regret. All thoughts become rooted in our hearts both positive and negative.When we desire things of the flesh instead of the spiritual we are living in sin because we have allowed temptations to become our intentions. Everything we place above God we idolize and worship. Money and luxuries become our God.We know that money in itself is not evil but the love of money is the problem.Sometimes entertaining thoughts of more money than we need to live takes a toll on our spiritual life in ways that lead us to sin.When a child of God is tempted by the things of the world they do get convicted by the Holy Spirit and this prevents them from sin.
Remember the cowboys movies and shows on the big screen and television we watch in our childhood days.There were always morals to the stories and the fighting was in the flesh with fist fights.They had guns but it was rare to see a gun fight in the streets at noon.Usually, there was a verbal fight over words said like"those are fighting words", take that back or and a fist fight might happen with a struggle or a glass of something in the other person face.Words can bring on a temptation to take action even today.It seems that the word uses words to tempt us every day to fight a battle for what is right.It seems like the world wants us to judge them for their sin.They are trying to push our buttons just like Satan did to Jesus many times by the using people to do things and say things to tempt Him.The evil is in the tongue and what they say and it coming from their cold hearts.They know they are deceiving and want control over you.Just like Satan who wanted to control Jesus we are still fighting the same temptations.
We have free will to choose our battles of the world.When we choose every battle of temptation we need to prepare ourselves to say no and not entertain the thoughts.Try to pick battles you know you can win.Go into every battle with a spiritual mindset on what would Jesus do.I think most people know what temptation can do if you take actions that cause sin to in your life.Ask God to help you in your prayers and check out the words of faith in the Bible.
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