Satan
tempts us at the point of our physical needs, not that we might gratify them to
excess, but that we may think of nothing else & gratify them at the expense
of our usefulness in this world. Satan tempts us at the point of our ambitious not
that we may engage in positive evil, but simply accept the facts of evil, learn
to live in it, come to terms with it and maintain a discreet silence in the presence
of evil. Satan tempts us on the point of
religion, not that we might disbelieve in God. But, that we might demand certainty,
that kind of certainty which leaves nothing at all to faith, nothing to God himself.
These are the moral struggles that have reality for people such as we are. The subtle
temptation to renounce our duty in favor
of what is attractive, that insidious allurement to a kind of half goodness,
which is the essence of everything bad and which is the product of war evil.(
( God's time and Ours, 1965, A. P. Griffith)
Romans 7:14 - We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good........................................ 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me what a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
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