Today we move from learning how to trust God when life gets difficult (trials) to trusting God when tempted to disregard His will. What’s the connection trials and temptation to sin? Every trial brings with it a temptation to reject God’s will and, therefore, sin against Him. In the moment of being tempted to do something wrong I face a choice: to either trust in God (obedience) or trust in myself (disobedience). MP3 download.
[…] Yesterday, Dan taught from James 1, which talks about temptation in terms of being lured. One big takeaway for me was that if you could just see the truth of the matter, the thing tempting us wouldn’t be so enticing. If we could only see that the thing that seems to offer a better life, in fact, offers death… […]