June 24

Temptation or sin

“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations” (2 Peter 2:9).
“. . . Though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations” (1 Peter 1:6).

I am glad you seem able in some measure to distinguish between darkness and heaviness. Darkness implies sin, and is associated with condemnation. Heaviness frequently implies little more than temptation, though it may often arise from such innocent causes as disordered nerves, bad health, or the influence of the atmosphere and is consistent with confidence in God; such as Job felt when he said, “though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.”
I allow, there may be at such times, great “searchings of heart,” and “these try the sinews of the soul, and drill the heart to suffering,” but “God is faithful.” Hold on here, and you shall weather every storm of earth and hell.
—James Caughey.

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