Short articles of the, "Yes Jesus" Book on prayer. # 67

 

REPEAT AFTER JESUS,

“LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION.”

 

God does not lead us into temptation. Let it be clear, God does not tempt.

 

God permitted Job to be tempted. Job’s temptation served greater purposes in God’s plan. It is in the strength of God that holy men are tempted and resist temptation. For the glory of God, the blessing of many, as well as our own good is what God has in mind for his people when they are being tempted.

 

With great suffering comes great comfort. The life of Job is a life of ultimate comfort. God comforts us with the same comfort. The book of Job ends in greater blessings from God.

 

In the same way our Lord Jesus was led by the Spirit to the desert to be tempted. I dare say that the duel of champions that unfolded there was just as violent as that of David and Goliath. 

 

We are tempted in the eyes of the invisible Heavenly host, local visible warriors of our time for the glory of God. Temptation is temptation when there is a duel-like confrontation to take a shortcut to the will of God.

 

Jesus, like David, was equipped with the Word of God. David with his five stones, representing the Pentateuch and Jesus with his three verses from Scripture.

 

Job, David, and Jesus experienced victory with the help of him who let them be led into temptation, and delivered them from the evil one.

 

In our unity with God, his enemy is our enemy as well.

Where God leads in, He also leads out.

 

So we can say, “Even if it kills me, I will trust Him.”

 

Though God leads into temptation, He is not the tempter. # 67.

 

This is the teaching elder on duty in matters of Prayer.

 

Gerry Gutierrez.