THREE TEMPTATION RESPONSIBILITIES
In the face of any and all temptation, the believer has three general responsibilities: First he is to rejoice in the midst of testing . . . This is not the attitude of a cynic or stoic but of a triumphant Christian who meets temptation not with passive resignation but with positive joy . . . We can rejoice because we know that a testing, successfully passed, will produce faith and patient endurance in the life, and sometimes this can only be done through tribulations. Second, Christians have the responsibility to endure temptation . . . To endure means to bear the test with patience and constancy and without murmuring, fainting or blaspheming . . . the believer who shows endurance will not question that God is working out His purpose in the test to produce growth and develop graces in his life. To yield is sin; to grumble is to fail; to endure is to learn the lesson God has…
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