(Chris Queen – PJ Media) One of the things that people often misunderstand about the Christian faith is that Christians still deal with temptations on a regular basis. We’re forgiven of our sins, but we still face the choice to sin or not to sin every single day.
“In the last analysis it is not the temptations that meet us on the streets that determine our conduct; it is the heart of the man who faces them,” wrote the great Welsh preacher and theologian Martyn Lloyd-Jones. “Two men may face the same conditions; one falls, the other stands. The difference is not in the temptation but in the heart of the man.”
Temptation isn’t a matter of if, but of when. We’re going to be tempted — even Jesus was tempted; the only difference was that He never gave into any of the temptations He faced.
Knowing that Jesus withstood temptation should give us comfort. As the author of Hebrews reminds us: