There are some things that seem to trip us up every time.
That cinnamon roll on the break room table. Mary brings them every Tuesday, and we can’t resist taking one.
Or the shoe store’s monthly sale. It’s too good to pass up, even if we have ten pairs we’ve never worn.
Then how about that sharp retort when our spouse remarks that we wore that shirt yesterday. The words are out of our mouth before we can call them back.
“Who made you boss of me? I can wear what I want when I want.”
And our day goes downhill from there.
Other things are even harder to resist. Certain Internet pages. That drink with the guys. A secretive smoke. One pill, just to get us through the day . . .
2 Peter 2:9 gives us a way out.
“Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment.”
We want the first so that we don’t have to be part of the second. We want to be rescued from our trials. We want to slough off the straitjacket of temptation so that we are no longer tripped up by things we never intended to get involved in.
God is our rescue. How? Here are four ways:
1. Prayer
2. Reading the Bible
3. Establishing the Word of God in our hearts (memorization!)
4. Frequent fellowship with Christians who also want to discard their spiritual straitjackets and move into the full and powerful truth of the Lord
God is our goal. Let’s run after him with every ounce of our strength.
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