[Applause] welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread Leslie Co wrote today's reading and he titled it tempted and tested Stanley loves the freedom and flexibility that his job as a private hire driver gives him among other things he can start and stop work anytime and he doesn't have to account for his time and movements to anyone yet he said that's ironically the hardest part in this job it's so easy to start an extramarital affair he admitted frankly I pick up all sorts of passengers yet no one including my wife knows where I am each
day it's not an easy temptation to resist and many of his fellow drivers have given into it he explained what stops me is considering what God would think and how my wife would feel he said our God who created each one of us knows our weaknesses desires and how easily we're tempted but as 1 Corinthians 10: 11-13 reminds us we can ask him for help God is faithful he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear Paul says when you are tempted God will also provide a way out so that you can
endure it that way out could be a healthy fear of consequences a guilty conscience remembering Scripture A Time distraction or something else as we ask God for strength the spirit will turn our eyes from what's tempting us and help us look toward the way out that he's given [Music] us the scripture reading for today's devotional is from 1 Corinthians 10: 11-13 these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us on whom the culmination of the ages has come so if you think you are standing firm be careful that you
do not fall no temptation has overtaken you except what is common to Mankind and God is faithful he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear but when you are tempted he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it would you spend some time in prayer with me dear heavenly father you know our weaknesses each and every day please give us the strength to resist temptation and to walk with you in your holy and life-giving ways thank you Lord It's in Jesus name we pray amen thanks so much
for listening today I'm Steven Taber and today's encouragement was provided by Our Daily Bread Ministries
