Another Week On My Own (standard:humor, 911 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Mar 23 2025	Views/Reads: 42/16	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Temptations will come, but I do not have to yield.

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fritter, and I was surely looking forward to this one. 

As I was driving, I was listening to some preacher on a radio station. I
was listening as I was driving, still very happy inside. Unfortunately 
for me, his sermon that day was on lying. 

I enjoyed his sermon, and as I was driving into the Publix parking lot,
I began to think about it. What is a lie? 

I knew I could go into that store, buy as many apple fritters as I
wanted, and then take them home. I knew I could put this together so 
that The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage would never know about it. 

Then, a thought burned into my head. Am I cheating on The Gracious
Mistress of the Parsonage? 

Halfway from my vehicle to the store, I stopped. Is it worth lying? 

I'm unsure what was happening in my heart, but I stopped, turned around,
returned to my vehicle, and went home. Not all the apple fritters in 
the world are worth lying to The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage. 

Driving home, I remembered a hymn that had the phrase, “Yield not to
temptation, for yielding is sin.” I can't stop the temptation, but I 
can refuse to yield to it. 

I also thought of a Bible verse. “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). 

Temptations will come, but I do not have to yield.


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