Temptation and the Way of Escape
The Saviour promised us no immunity from temptation, but the most ample support in it. We are to be tempted in all points like as he was; but in every temptation there is to be for us a way of escape. In the midst of the fire we shall be able to endure it. Without temptation we should never know the depths of evil within our hearts; without support in it, or deliverance from it, we should never have known the greatness and preciousness of the Lord’s grace. The Lord opens to us the gate of temptation, not because he is unable to control the elements of evil, but because he intends to use them to display the depths of sin and the unmeasured heights of redemption.—Zion’s Herald.