Temptation Part: 2!!

First of all let me go ahead and say that the reason I am talking so much on this is, because I struggle with it hourly. Every time before I write a post, I pray that Gods words will overshadow mine and this his name would be uplifted like no other! Normally when I start to write a blog, it starts out in one direction but through the process, God leads it down a completely different route. Yesterday I said, I believed that there were two false teachings about Temptation. I talked on the first one yesterday, and today I will hit on the second.

I believe the second biggest false teaching about temptation, is that you should try to stay away from it. My next comment, will sum up my entire view about this teaching. If you are a person who has found some way to stay completely away from temptation, then you need to do two things. 1) Repent 2)Get off your butt and do something for God. Now, I am not saying you should go out and look for temptation because we are faced with enough of it as it is. If/Though we are faced with it, that doesn't mean we have done wrong or have dishonored God. Temptation is designed for those who are doing great works for Christ. We have to understand, that Sat ans main goal is to keep as many people out of Heaven as possible. So does this mean he's after the drunk or the murderer, NO! he's going after the preachers and the teachers, the ones who people look up to as a good example. If Satan can mess up the lives and christian walk of those who play big roles in the ministry of God, it's going to have a domino effect on those that follow him, possibly turning them away from God!!
I say it all the time, the biggest problem with the world today is not the unchurched or unsaved, but rather the ones who are churched and saved but live as though they're not. As I said yesterday, Satan tempted Jesus numerously as he was on earth. He wasn't worried about Billy who was smoking crack on the side of the road and selling it to little kids. He was worried about the perfect one, Jesus, the one whose shoulders the whole christian movement sat on. Satan is not as dumb as you think, he knew that if he could get Jesus to fall under temptation, the whole movement of Christianity would be lost forever. We shouldn't get discouraged when things aren't going our way or we feel as though the temptation is getting too hard to overcome.
We know, that we are attracted to it, and we can't escape it if we Serve God. Temptation will always stare us in the face and try to side track us from our calling. We should anticipate falling into temptation, and know the ways I could respond that give Glory to God. Again, if you have no temptation you really should repent and live life for God.