Life is so...

1 Corinthians 10:13
The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.

A rather interesting thought came to me tonight...

I was struggling with a situation, knowing what the right thing was to do but really wanting to do the wrong thing. It wasn't to be disobediant to God that was I considering the wrong thing. It was because it felt better than doing the right thing. In doing the wrong thing, I would have been receiving the things I felt missing.

In the end, I knew I had to do the right thing.

I love God so very much and I want to do what is right in His eyes, so I knew that if I gave into the temptation to do the wrong thing, God would be hurt and other people could be hurt as well.

The way out of the temptation I was feeling was simple ~ just turn away and go focus on the good in my life instead of the negative in my life.

I have been convicted in my heart of the truth of Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.

It is in focusing on these things that our lives are made perfect and whole.

In 2 Corinthians 10:5 it tells us "We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."

It is truth that if we focus on the positives in our lives, take our thoughts and make them obedient to Christ, it takes away the control Satan has in our life to tempt us.