“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” – 1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV
There isn’t a sin that God can’t deliver you from. If you will call on Him to give you strength to resist temptation, He will empower you to overcome it. Unfortunately, a lot of people suffer from what is known as ‘habitual sin’; that is, they don’t resist the ‘sin of their choice’, but submit to it on a regular basis. Yet if no temptation is beyond God’s power to enable us to resist it, then why do people continue to fall into the same sins over and over again? It all comes down to the choices that we make. In other words, we choose to sin. Many will deny this, of course, because they’re under the impression that they can’t stop sinning, not even with God’s help. But what they’re really implying when they say that they can’t stop sinning is that they either don’t want to stop or they believe that God isn’t big enough to deliver them from their sins. Either way, it’s a bad scenario!
Listen, when Paul said “no temptation” he meant just that. He didn’t say some temptation, but “no temptation.” So there’s really no excuse to justify sin in our lives; it’s a lack of will on our part to avoid sin that keeps us bound to it. But if we would cast our cares on Jesus Christ, exercising true faith in the power of God, we would overcome any temptation. Jesus said, “verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.”( Matthew 17:20 KJV). How could anyone who has faith in Jesus deny His words?
Are the mountains of sin in your life really too big for God to handle? Indeed, God can move those mountains! But do you really want Him to? Do you value Him more than you value sin? If so, then don’t make excuses to justify the presence of sin in your life; instead, kneel before God in prayer and ask Him for strength to resist evil. And don’t stop praying until the devil flees from you. Hence you will discover what it means to walk in victory with Him who has overcome the world; that is, you will walk with Jesus Christ.
