Practice
Few things are as incessant as temptation, particularly those in the thoughts. It arrives in wave-after-wave, relentlessly attacking, probing for weakness, like an invading army. And most Christians have no idea how to truly combat this daily enemy.
The most common strategy usually boils down to “try not to think about it.” Has anyone ever been able to stop thinking about something once they begin? The mind is very clever and elusive. Thoughts and feelings cannot be simply “forgotten.” After all, the Bible says in Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
Therefore we must employ a SCRIPTURAL strategy (not pop psychology) to OVERCOME temptation. Jesus said in John 16:33. “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” He has already overcome the world. And through Him we are become MORE than conquerors.
Romans 8:37 says, “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”
