Temptation Affects Everyone...

Temptation affects everyone. It doesn't matter who you are, how strong you are, how knowledgeable, how immersed in the Bible, or how committed to integrity. To be Overcomers, we must constantly be on our guard because temptation is no respecter of persons. 
~ David Jeremiah 

Vocation of Humans

The vocation of humans is to enjoy their emancipation from the power of death wrought by God’s vitality in this world. The crown of life is the freedom to live now, for all the strife and ambiguity and travail, in the imminent transcendence of death, and all of death’s threats and temptations. That is the gift of God in Christ’s Resurrection. ~ William Stringfellow 

Temptations Help Us...

"Remember that we actually need these tests. Yes, we need them because they help us demonstrate our love for Christ. Without the occasional test, how could we measure our growth in Christ? Why would we even need to depend on Him? Every one of us could run the perfect race, and what would it mean? Nothing at all. But when we have every possibility of stumbling, every possibility of choosing the wrong path, and when we stand tall and walk wisely JUST THE SAME, God is glorified in this world and in the next!" ~ Dr. David Jeremiah (Slaying the Giants in Your Life)

A faint beginning

If I do not look with eyes of hope on all in whom there is even a faint beginning, as our Lord did when, just after His disciples has wrangled about which of them should be accounted the greatest, He softened His rebuke with those heart-melting words, "Ye are they which continue with Me in my temptations," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

~ Amy Carmichael