Flee What?

Text: II Tim.2:15-22
More Lessons: I Tim.6:11
Bible Reading in One Year: 1 Pet.3-5

Often, we get into trouble or make irreparable mistakes in life just because we do not know how to handle our challenges. Experience is not what happens to you in life, but how you handle it. Exposed to evil or temptation and doing nothing about it makes children of God live a life of shame and reproach even though God has promised us grace and glory.

Our text today tells us how to cope with temptations and how to become the kind of disciples Jesus wants us to be. Jn. 15:14 says Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Obedience is the issue when it comes to true Christianity. Salvation is a free gift from God but you won't grow much unless you take definite steps of obedience. There are so many things to flee from in the scriptures: if we will remain God's friends; I Cor. 6:18 Flee fornication....: I Cor. 10:14 ...flee from idolatry: II Tim. 2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: Matt.3:7 ...flee from the wrath to come.

Being complacent about what can destroy us is not courage, but carelessness. Running away or doing everything possible to escape from evil, danger or temptation is the wisest thing to do. We must know that our spiritual life is one of motion. So many times, God tells us to do one thing or the other, and unless we are swift in response to his instructions, we fail even when we are not supposed to.

Can you anticipate any temptation that might hit you today? How will you handle it? In Matt.22:41, Jesus said ...pray, that ye enter not into temptation....: because wit every temptation, there is a way of escape(I Cor. 10:13). You must be guided 24/7. The tempter is never tired at all; when you hear his roar, flee. God will keep you from the hour of temptation in Jesus' name (Rev. 3:10)

Prayer/Action
1. I receive the grace of God not to fall into temptation again in Jesus' name.
2. Father help me to keep the word of your patience daily in Jesus' name.
3. Father keep me from the hour of temptation which shall come on all men, in Jesus' name
4. Oh God, help me to pursue righteousness daily in Jesus' name.

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