Bekah and I have been doing a Bible study off of the book ONE TRUE GOD by Paul Washer. You can buy it in hard copy, but there is a PDF online too. Bekah and I had our first meeting this morning at 8 on chat. We spent about an hour reading a section and discussing each verse.
Today's section had a few verses on what God CANNOT do. We say God can do everything, but He cannot go against Himself.
He cannot sin.
He cannot lie to us.
He cannot tempt us.
We spent a little longer talking about that last one. It doesn't sound as outlandish to say "God is tempting me" than "God lied to me" or something.
"When tempted, no one should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone" ~ James 1:13
We talked about temptation. If God cannot be tempted by evil, imagine what a new experience it was for Jesus to be tempted by Satan in the wilderness! All a part of Him being human--part of the way He loved us. The next verse says that temtation happens when we lose sight of God and are "dragged away and enticed by our own evil desires". God has NOTHING to do with that! Just the opposite--it is all our flesh and Satan. God is merely the One who waits for us to run back to Him. He gives us that place to flee temptation...Himself!
1 comment:
Wow, great post Meggy! :-) Isn't it great knowing that we have such a wonderful Father who wants to protect us?
Thanks for your comment on my blog. :-D It's really sad, everything going on over there. And because the airports and ports for ships are damaged, they can only get so much help in.
Love ya!
~Laura
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