Worsting Our Temptations

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 21, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 16.

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Worsting Our Temptations

TEMPTATION’S worst enemy is a crowded life. If we would have temptation leave us, we must see to it that our lives are so completely taken up with other things that there is literally no room nor crack nor crevice for temptation to crowd its way in. A young fellow who was having his first real struggle against temptation—never before having specially tried to break with the indulgences that mean death—found that the conflict was so one-sided against him as to be utterly hopeless, unless he could replace the old activities in wrong-doing with equally time-consuming and more interesting activities of a worthy sort. But merely filling up our time will not win the victory. Back of that lie our interests; and they must be yielded up to Christ. When we set our will in line with Christ’s will, determined to make His work our supreme purpose, and then crowd our waking moments with activities directed by Him, we have a right to expect Him to lead us not into temptation.—S. S. Times.