Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—James 1:12-15
by: Leota Stevens.
Satan would so like to paint this scene with the broad stroke of the wrong brush, using the wrong colors and focusing in on the wrong subject. Every man, woman, and child on this planet is tempted to do what their conscience says is wrong. Satan’s perspective is to lay the blame on God for the temptation, thus absolving man of any personal choice in this matter and adding to the victim-mentality that is so obvious in society. We need to see the issue more clearly. We follow and succumb to temptation when we are led by our own desires. God knows this to be a fact and provides strength through relationship with him for all who trust him to withstand the gravitational pull of their own nature.