Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Falling into temptation

On the night that Jesus was betrayed, He went to the Mount of Olives to pray alone, as His humanity was in conflict with His divinity. In Luke 22:40, He instructed his disciples to "Pray that you will not fall into temptation." Some of the temptations the disciples faced may have been to betray Christ, deny that they know Him, or fight try to keep Him from being arrested; the disciples fell into all of these temptations, as they were more focused on their circumstance than Jesus' instruction to pray. The same is true for us today; to avoid falling into the many temptations that we face, we must also pray that we do not fall into it.

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