Temptation Is Oh So Tempting (standard:humor, 908 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Aug 07 2021	Views/Reads: 1039/687	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
There is a hymn that says, “Yield not to temptation, for yielding is sin.” Temptations are there all the time, but God can give me the strength not to yield to them. I can’t control the temptation but I can the yielding part.

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Very hesitantly, I got up and went to answer the phone. This time it was
a recorded message about a warrant that has been issued for my arrest 
somewhere in Texas. So all I needed to do was push number 1. 

I hung up very angrily and went back to the table, sat down and took a
deep breath, and once again looked at those wonderful Apple Fritters. 

Before I could even clear my mind, the telephone rang again. By this
time, there was a swirl of anger bubbling up in my mind. 

I answered the phone, someone introduced themselves and said they are
sending me a diabetic machine according to my doctor. And, it was FREE. 


Is it wrong to give someone a piece of your mind? And, which piece am I
going to give this person? 

Not dwelling on this very long, I just opened up and gave this person a
piece of my mind that I have never used before. I was so tempted to say 
things that would be very inappropriate. I was expressing my anger as I 
have never expressed it before. 

For someone to come between my Apple Fritter and me is a very dangerous
place to be. So I explained to the person on the phone what a stupid 
idiot they were, as if they didn't know already, and how I did not 
appreciate them calling me, particularly at this time of the day. 

Then I heard the magical sound of “click.” He was no longer on the
phone. 

Sitting back at the table, I looked at my Apple Fritters, and as I took
my first bite, I thought of a verse of Scripture that means a lot to 
me. 

“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). 

There is a hymn that says, “Yield not to temptation, for yielding is
sin.” Temptations are there all the time, but God can give me the 
strength not to yield to them. I can't control the temptation but I can 
the yielding part.


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