TEMPTATION

Temptations divide the world into two classes; those who fail and go down under them & those who meet them successfully & gain strength of character through overcoming them.

To the one class they are stumbling-blocks; to the other they are stepping-stones.

To the one they are hindrances; to the other they are helps.

It is not our temptations but the way we respond to them that counts.

- H. O. Fanning (moreillustrations.com)

“In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such thinking is exceedingly dangerous. God's judgment is without partiality. He never overlooks our sin. He never decides not to bother even if the sin is only a small one. No, God hates sin intensely whenever and wherever He finds it.” - Jerry Bridges.

Ecc 12:13-14 ( GNT): “After all this, there is only one thing to say: Have reverence for God, and obey his commands, because this is all that we were created for. God is going to judge everything we do, whether good or bad, even things done in secret.”