By experiencing temptations, we know ourselves. By fighting them we have a chance to become winners. By overcoming them, we are crowned victors.
Lord, you are our physician, healing the ills of all.
Reflection
The Lord said, "Keep watching and praying that you may not come into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" (Mk 14:38).
When the devil had finished every temptation, he left Him until an opportune time. -- Luke 4:13
People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. -- 1 Timothy 6:9
No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it. -- 1 Corinthians 10:13
The Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, -- 2 Peter 2:9
"Those on the rocky soil are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no firm root; they believe for a while, and in time of temptation fall away." -- Luke 8:13
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: -- Hebrews 3:8, Psalm 95:8
And my temptation which was in my flesh you despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. -- Galatians 4:14
Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come on all the world, to try them that dwell on the earth. -- Revelation 3:10
Dear brothers and sisters, if another believer is overcome by some sin, you who are godly should gently and humbly help that person back onto the right path. And be careful not to fall into the same temptation yourself. -- Galatians 6:1
Do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.' -- Matthew 6:13
