Temptations

I don’t have a fancy title for this short post. The word says it all. “Lead us not into…” Temptation is inevitable. The question of how to answer it is key. I spoke with a friend today about the nature of temptation. We discussed that its devilish taste has a short edenic flavor, but shortly thereafter it leaves a perpetual bitter taste in your mouth. Temptation is always stronger around sins that have been previously indulged. Those sins that you have overcome have a way of seeming very attractive when it presents itself again.  We are called to flee those environments, but at times we find ourselves going just far enough to get a bit of that old taste thinking that it will provide satisfaction, and then once again we find ourselves miserably confronted with the taste of death.

The roaring lion is patient in his strategizing. He screwtapes us into believing that our rationale is perfect. We are sin logicians by nature and the more we perfect that art the more we are treasured by the father of lies.

Taste not. Handle not. Touch not. Deliver us from evil.