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The Great Temptation

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 8, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 14.

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The Great Temptation

IT is not easy to know when we are being confronted with our greatest temptations. For the really great temptations of life are great because they do not seem to be temptations at all. President Frost, of Berea College, Kentucky, calls attention to this truth when he says that he used to suppose a great temptation was the temptation to commit a great sin. As he grew older, he says, he came to realize that “a great temptation is not when one is faced with the choice between something very good and something very bad. It is when one is faced with the choice between something very good—and something better.” The man who never falls into great sin may fall day after day through life in failing to choose the “something better,” and thus utterly fail in making of his life that which God had planned for him. Let us pray for strength to meet the great temptation. — S. S. Times.