The Devil Made Me Do It
The Devil Made Me Do It A boy slipped away into the kitchen and straight to the cookie jar. As he was rattling and opened the jar, he did not know his mother was somewhere watching. He proceeded and put his hand into the cookie jar and at that point, his mother came. She asked him, Bill what are you doing? Bill replied I was trying to see if I will be tempted. This is funny, but true. We all at some point have been tempted and have given in to temptation. Jesus “was tempted in every way, just as we are –yet was without sin” (Hebrew: 4:15). What are the prime ingredients of our temptations and how can we like Jesus overcome them? Let’s learn from Jesus who is our example. Luke 4: 1-13 “1Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the desert, 2where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry. 3The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to be...