It isn’t unusual to hear that when someone is doing God’s Work they will have greater temptations to deal with. When someone is telling me this for themselves it is easy to see. When it is happening to yourself, well, it is not so easy. Dealing with temptation is “common to man” as I Corinthians 10:13 tells us. So, I’ve always just chalked temptations up to this. However, the thing I’m not so good at doing is confessing strong moments of it. I think it is another one of those pride things. I can easily see that my dad gave in to temptations as well as my brother did. So, if I confess any temptations I battle, I’ll be no different than they were. Then, as I write this out I can easily see that my brother was who he was, my dad was who he was and I am who I am. All that now being written, we are simply men who deal with temptations that are common to man.

I write this out because I have dealt with a couple of days where this is the battle for me. I already can smile just getting this out in the open. Thank YOU JESUS!