Joshua 1:8 - Eat Some Bread! Resistance

 

Joshua 1:8

NKJV

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

NLT

Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do.

 

Resisting temptations…that’s a booger bear! This is where satan starts to look for footholds in our lives. We leave the door opened just a tiny little crack, thinking nobody can get through there; It won’t hurt if I give in just the one time. Unfortunately, that’s the thinking that can unravel your life in a hurry. The enemy doesn’t come at us with ugliness and consequences.  The enemy comes at us with justification. We say things that makes it ok for us to give in.

 

“it’s not hurting anybody”

“nobody will know”

“that’s my business and nobody else’s”

 

These, and statements like them, are our way of justifying that what we’re doing is ok. If I’m saying things like this…then I’m not being honest with myself or anyone else; or maybe I am being honest and I just don’t care.

 

Read these today:

Mathew 4:4

Job 23:12

Isaiah 55:2

Hosea 4:6

James 4:7

 

All of this comes down to resisting temptations and how we are to do it.  To be perfectly honest, it’s the simplest thing…it ain’t easy…but it’s simple.  Yesterday we were encouraged to eat some bread.  It’s the same today, eat some bread daily.  Study the word, know where your strength comes from.  The word tells us to submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from us. Studying the word also fills our minds with something other than our temptation; for me it makes perfect sense.  I want so much of Jesus in me, that everything that is me…gets pushed out. Start today, read something in the bible today.

 

Resistance,

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