Temptations

It is known that in any kind of temptations (like for example: to eat more than you need), if you stop for a moment and think about the long term consequences of your present actions, it will normally become easier to resist it. It is an evil strategy to push you to make quick decisions without thinking it thoroughly and over thinking with guilt after you do it and not before. It happens again and again. Temptations works more or less like this:

1. Before you do it, it looks wonderful and every aspect of it is positive. Looks like an opportunity you could miss. You have to act quickly.
2. While you do it you experience a mix of pleasure and guilt.
3. After you do it, you feel guilty. Now your sense of responsibility is sinking in. Now you realize that it was the wrong thing to do. You feel bad, depressed, heavy. 
   When you think about recovery, you feel that you already crossed the line, you are dirty, going back to normal will not change your bad past.

Of course, temptation is right when it says that you cannot change your past, but it doesn’t let you know that you can change your future by making better choices. Even after failing temptation, you can still change and be better, have a better future. It is not over. That’s God’s message. That’s why Jesus came to earth: to give you a second chance. You don’t have to remain in your dirt. You can escape if you decide and God will help you do it.    

Wise friends will rescue you from the Temptress—

   that smooth-talking Seductress

Who’s faithless to the husband she married years ago,

   never gave a second thought to her promises before God.

Her whole way of life is doomed;

   every step she takes brings her closer to hell.

No one who joins her company ever comes back,

   ever sets foot on the path to real living.

So—join the company of good men and women,

   keep your feet on the tried-and-true paths.

It’s the men who walk straight who will settle this land,

   the women with integrity who will last here.

The corrupt will lose their lives;

   the dishonest will be gone for good.

(Prov.2:16-22 MSG)

 Prayer: Thanks for your Holy Spirit that aids me to resist any temptation. Help me to be aware, to discern when there is a temptation going on. Help me to stop, think of the long term consequences before decide. Help me to walk in integrity. And when I fail, help to repent and rise up again.