TEMPTATION

A co-worker asked a friend why he got donuts if he was trying to diet. He said, “Well, I came around the corner where the Crispy Creme shop was, and I told God, if He wanted me to buy some donuts to have a parking spot in the front. On the eighth time around, there it was!”

Friend, don't treat temptation like this. The Bible says in 2 Timothy 2:22 "FLEE also youthful lusts..." 1 Corinthians 6:18 says, "FLEE fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.” I Corinthians 10:14 declares  "Wherefore, my dearly beloved, FLEE from idolatry. Proverbs 7:6-10 “For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, Passing through the street NEAR her corner; and he went the way to her house, In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.” If you don’t go NEAR, you will not go the way. 

Proverbs 5:2-10 -That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.REMOVE THEY WAY FAR FROM her, and COME NOT NIGH the door of her house: Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger.”

A man advertised for a chauffeur. Three applicants came. His first question was, "How close to the edge  of a cliff can you drive without going over?"

One man said, "A yard." 

Another replied, "A foot." 

The third said, "As far away as possible."

The third man got the job.

Joseph was victorious because he FLED (Genesis 39:12) and did not linger. When faced with temptation don't go around the block and look back at it. Flee it and don't look back.

Don’t see how close you can come to temptation but rather how far you can stay away from it if you want to be a victorious Christian.