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Lord, Enable Me to Resist the Temptation to Sin
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hy would a young man with everything going for him want to risk losing it all? One particular man I know of had good looks, musical talent, courage, wealth, prominence, authority, a wife, and God’s favor. In addition to all this, he had single-handedly defeated one of the worst enemy threats to his nation’s military. Yet he fell into temptation and succumbed to it with sin on top of sin. King David obviously had too much time on his hands and he wasn’t where he was supposed to be. He was out on the roof of his palace watching the woman next door take a bath instead of going to war with his men the way other kings did. His biggest mistake was not that he fell into temptation, for that can happen to anyone, but that he didn’t turn away from it and run to God in repentance immediately. He stayed and stared. He thought and schemed. He let his lust rule him instead of his God. As a result, he became a murderer and an adulterer and ended up paying for it for the rest of his life—even to the point of witnessing the death of his own son.
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