A temptation is an opportunity to accomplish a good thing in a bad way, out of the will of God.

These desires must be our servants and not our masters; and this we can do through Jesus Christ.

One three-year-old’s explanation for being in the kitchen atop a chair, eating cookies: “I just climbed up to smell them, and my tooth got caught.”

A temptation is an opportunity to accomplish a good thing in a bad way, out of the will of God.

Christian living is a matter of the will, not the feelings.

In a supermarket one day, a mother was pushing a shopping cart with a small child in it. As she was not paying attention to where she was going, she turned down an aisle and suddenly realized it was the candy aisle. Immediately she turned completely around and went the other direction. She knew the small child would not be able to handle the situation. In the same way, God protects us from things we can’t handle.

Reverend Kyoshi Tanimoto, a Methodist minister who had miraculously survived the Hiroshima conflagration. The pastor asked to meet Albert Einstein, the man whose knowledge had much to do with the construction of the first atom bomb. Einstein was pleased to welcome the minister from Japan. Imagine the high drama and excitement as the two men met in the professor’s home at Princeton, New Jersey! It was reported that Einstein suggested the bomb should never have been dropped on a city. Graciously Tanimoto countered, the Japanese would have dropped it on America if they had possessed the bomb.

With firmness and moral conviction, Einstein answered, “Even if you might have done it to us, this would still have been no excuse for us to drop the bomb.”