🚶🏻‍♂️Walk Away 🏃‍➡️

I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me.

2 Thessalonians 3:3 (KJV) But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

As the Apostle Paul finishes up his letter he leaves those at Thessalonica with words of great encouragement. He says “the Lord is faithful” you and I live in a world of unfaithfulness. Although that might be true there is still one who is faithful;

1 Corinthians 1:9 (KJV) God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. That should encourage you and I for in this world of things and people that aren’t faithful we have it in writing that God is faithful. Our God will keep His Word; we can say what God says will come to pass. Paul says God is faithful to “stablish you” or strengthen you and “keep you from evil.” In what we call the Lord’s Prayer which is really an outline of how we should pray. In that prayer the Lord tells His disciples this “lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.” Temptation is something that attracts our wants or secrets desires. Temptation grabs our attention and we have to act on this temptation in one of two ways. First we have to be careful of how we think about it and how long we think about it. The longer we think about it the more we are likely to follow through with it.   1 Corinthians 10:13 (KJV) There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. Ok here is your choice, temptation is common, we will experience it. Now on the other hand we can allow this temptation to over take us or we can overcome this temptation. How? We read in the verse above these words “God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape” Escape! Do you want the escape or enjoy and suffer the consequences? Remember temptations will always have consequences. The consequences will not be worth the enjoyment of the temptation. The temptation comes, it has its powerful draw on you. At this point we must ask God for help to overcome what we can’t. God is faithful and in His faithfulness He makes a way for us to escape. King David allowed his temptation of seeing Bathsheba as she  washed herself to overtake him and he committed a wrongful act. Had he knew that the consequences of that one night stand would cost him a lifetime of troubles. Just maybe he would have walked away. This sin that no one was to know about; well people are still reading about it. Just remember 

Numbers 32:23 (KJV) But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.  Don’t think you’ll get away with it, that’s what David thought and oh how wrong he was.