OVERCOMING TEMPTATION

Wednesday - April 1, 2020

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"My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them." - Proverbs 1:10

Beatrice Webb was one of the architects of the modern British welfare system. She and her husband founded the London School of Economics. Webb was a Socialist and an activist.

In her diary in 1925, Webb wrote the following:

“In my diary 1890, I wrote I have staked all on the essential goodness of human nature. But now 35 years later I have discovered how permanent are the evil instincts and impulses within us and how little they seem to change - like greed for wealth and power and how mere social machinery will never change that. We ask better things from human nature but we never get a response. No amount of science or knowledge has been of any avail. And unless we curb the bad impulse how will we get better social institutions?”

Every day and in many ways, we are tempted to sin. Today in prayer, thank the Lord that in Him we can overcome the temptation to sin.

"Few speed records are broken when people run from temptation." - E.C. McKenzie

God's Word: "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one." - Matthew 6:13