A WAY TO ESCAPE
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. ” (1 Corinthians 10:13). For Christians, temptation is an unpleasant, humbling, and stressful experience. When we are tempted, we tend to think of ourselves as weak and inferior to other believers who surely don’t struggle with such things to the degree that we do. Afterwards, we may feel guilty or unclean even if we have not followed the temptation and actually committed a sin. It’s not unusual, either, for believers to be attacked in their dreams by images of themselves doing things that they would abhor in their waking hours. They wake up feeling like they have sinned against the Lord, and they weep and repent for what they feel they have done. Every temptation that we experience is just the result of our humanness, and is, as Paul