If you have ever been on a diet, you know the stomach-tugging, mouth-watering feeling of seeing a nice piece of pie or a donut or perhaps a rich-looking piece of cheesecake, and just oooing and ahhhing over it. Your head says "No", but your tastebuds say "We want; we need; give it to us; we want satisfction.". And the more we dwell on it, the stronger the desires grow.
Satan knows what we want. He knows our weak areas of desires. Same goes for our flesh and its weaknesses. The lust of the eye can be quite powerful. We are tempted on so many different fronts, and like the pie, the donut, or the cheesecake, the more we dwell on sin, the stronger the desires grow. But just looking at pie, donuts or cheesecake will not add one ounce to your weight.
Likewise, temptation is not sin. James tells us that if we will humble ourselves before God and resist the devil, he will flee from us. Humbling ourselves is not easy. Resisting is hard work. But it can be done with the power of the Spirit and in the powerful name of Jesus. We can lay aside the weight of sin by dwelling on a spiritual diet of "consuming the Word".
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