“Do not err, my beloved brethren.”
James 1:16 KJV
James, the half-brother of Jesus writes - “My dear friends, do not go wandering off into deception.” By giving credit to temptation, you may possibly think this is God’s way of speaking to you! So what about the Lord’s Prayer - “lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil”? This sounds like God had temptation on today’s agenda for you, but if you pray this prayer, then maybe He will change His mind! In Greek ‘to lead’ means to reach inward and within; and ‘temptation’ means to test through piercing and examine closely to determine the hidden value of something. But earlier James clearly pointed out that no man should say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts He any man - God is not in the teasing business. He is not the source of good and evil! God delivers us from our propensity to align ourselves to the law of works where we give evil a foothold. Let’s pray, “Father, You know me inside out. Free me thoroughly from any hidden alliance with the old system of performance based living! Remove any trace of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. In Jesus’s Name”. Amen!
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