Strength To Resist Enticement

Proverbs 1:8-19
8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction
and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

9 They will be a garland to grace your head
and a chain to adorn your neck.

10 My son, if sinners entice you,
do not give in to them.

11 If they say, "Come along with us;
let's lie in wait for someone's blood,
let's waylay some harmless soul;

12 let's swallow them alive, like the grave, [b]
and whole, like those who go down to the pit;

13 we will get all sorts of valuable things
and fill our houses with plunder;

14 throw in your lot with us,
and we will share a common purse"-

15 my son, do not go along with them,
do not set foot on their paths;

16 for their feet rush into sin,
they are swift to shed blood.

17 How useless to spread a net
in full view of all the birds!

18 These men lie in wait for their own blood;
they waylay only themselves!

19 Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain;
it takes away the lives of those who get it.


God is speaking through this passage to me. When I am struggling with temptation and just giving up, here He speaks to me of not giving in to temptation. It is so clear on what to do to resist temptation, yet it is so hard to do it.

God's words strengthens me to resist the temptation of this world. Though it is hard, I know that the Lord is with me and is rooting me on to no fall into sin. I must resist the world and hold onto what is right, onto the truth, onto the Lord.

Father, I thank you for the Love of your Son Jesus Christ. Let Him be a reminder to me that it is for sin that He has given up His life for me, so that I may be out of sin an in Salvation. Lord, I thank you for that. Help me as I go through a time to resist the world and all that it offers. I know that it is bad for me, so I pray that you be with me in this time when I am weak, and let you be the strong one. I pray all this in Jesus name.
Amen.