Magnetic Field
Theme of the Week: Meet the Tempter Head-on
Thursday, July 23, 2009
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Key Bible Verse: God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him (Philippians 2:13). Bonus Reading: 1 Kings 18:21; Psalm 119:11
A piece of steel suspended between two magnets could swing either right or left because it's being simultaneously drawn by two powerful forces. After vacillating for a second, it begins to move in one direction. Then it moves more rapidly, no longer able to swing back. It's out of the range of the other magnet's power.
You may be wavering between God and the world. Sometimes you follow your own desires, sometimes God's. But the farther you go in God's direction, the less attraction the world will have. The world will never lose its power to attract. No will is strong enough to merely resist its power. But if you focus your attention on God as revealed in the Scriptures, you remove yourself from the sphere of the world's influence.
I've found I can't resist enticing thoughts simply by saying, "I resist that thought!" The thought returns again and again. But I can switch my thoughts to the Scriptures—quote a verse, offer praise, or renew my fellowship with God. Only in the presence of the Almighty does the world lose its allure.
God energizes our wills, helping us make the decisions that we ought—and ultimately really want—to make.
—Erwin Lutzer in Getting to No
My Response: An area in which my will needs biblical reinforcement is …
Thought to Apply: The Bible redirects my will, cleanses by emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being. —E. Stanley Jones (missionary to India)
Adapted from Getting to No (Cook, 2007) by permission.
Copyright © 2009 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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I can't take on the devil in my own strength, Lord. Help me soak up your Word so that my will will align with yours.
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