Howdy, I'm new to the forum, and I've been struggling with a question.
In 1 Cor. 10:13. Paul talks about being tempted and God providing a
way out of that. I know the standard answer that God will provide an
alternative to the temptation so we will not sin, but my query is this,
does this "way out" also refer to us that when we do sin, having not
walked away from it, that we should have faith in Christ, and His
atoning sacrifice for our sin, as our "way out". I hope that makes
sense. Of course, I'm not looking for an excuse to sin, not that I need one."
Yes, there are trials that we must go through in this life. And there
are provisions for us when we go through them. I do not think that the
apostle is talking about taking one step at a time or the rite step. God
orders our trials for a purpose. It is not mainly for a moral purpose.
It is to try our faith. He does this so that we will learn to trust in
His word, trust in His unfailing love, and our object any trial is to
become like Christ. If we just went through this life being blessed, we
would become self confident. We would be like the wicked man who says in
his heart, i will hunt down the oppressed, and no God will not see, nor
will He repay me. So God makes all of His children go through trials so
that they will call out to Him for deliverance, because God delivers on
the day of trouble when the wicked are most severe in their arrogant
plans. God waits for the last minute because He wants us to go from
trusting in His word , to seeing His hand in a really clear way. He does
not want us trusting in man. He does not want us trusting in a plan. He
wants us to trust that His rite hand is directly involved in our
deliverance. His rite hand is the place of authority , because Christ
has all authority over every thing by right.
So we get ready for
the day of evil,or the trial that is determined by God to test our
faith. We know that when He seems far away, that our trial will be for
our good. It will in the end teach us to walk in a path of righteousness
by us learning to trust in Christ righteousness. We will learn that
grace is really free. And in going through the trial we will learn that
there is nothing we can do except trust in Him. We will begin to learn
that we were not as strong as we once thought. We will learn that our
strength really causes us the most pain. Because in a trial God deals
with our self confidence. If we are going to learn about His power then
we are going to need to shed our power. In crying to Him night and day
we are learning to depend on His power, because we are single minded,
that is we are asking that He lead us down the rite path which in a
trial we are less aware of that path being smooth since our anxiety
level causes us to feel some of the pit falls on our way. In learning to
go down His path , we must trust in HIs word alone. For His word is the
application of our trusting in Him to lead us down the straight path.
When we trust in our own understanding, we will be less able to go His
way. So we turn from our own understanding and trust in His word alone.
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