A fresh new week is on the horizon, and I find myself looking back at the last week still trying wrap my mind around a few lingering thoughts. The week was good and I encountered a few situations and overheard a few conversations that may influence my thoughts today.
I will paint a picture of something and let you run with it whatever way applies to your life at this moment in time. Imagine that you are in the garden of eden and can visibly see the forbidden fruit. Its slightly out of reach but you see resources and people that can help you obtain it if you so choose to. In that same garden you also see another tree that also bears fruit which is even further out of reach and the same resources are available. Don't make a decision yet, but start thinking about situations that you have experienced throughout the course of your life.
Over the course of my life I have often times encountered temptations and its not always represented as something that is bad for you. Based on our experiences in life and hearing people use the term, we often associate it with something utterly life changing and negative.
My thoughts on temptation today really don't have much to do with me fighting demons, but to focus on looking at things through a different lens.
The examples that I used earlier were to examine the reasons why certain things in our lives are designed to be temptations for us. The forbidden fruit earlier was too easy to obtain and there was really no growth during our pursuit of it. Sometimes people tell us things aren't good for us because of their accessibility or the fact that we won't appreciate what we have. If we pursue the fruit on the 2nd tree and obtain it, do we appreciate it more after the work we have put in to get it? Did we obtain it on our own or ask for help to get it? And if we did have help, did we share the fruits of success?Adam and Eve learned about obedience from their experience in the garden of eden. Don't let temptation scare you, let it teach you a lesson that you are supposed learn.
“Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.”
-William Butler Yeats
“Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction”
-John Owen
“Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle”
-Charles H. Spurgeon
“Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them”
-John Bunyan
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