How often do we flirt with personal disaster, thinking we can do whatever we want and not be affected? The evidence to the contrary is all around us, yet we don’t seem to learn. Here’s what George Whitefield had to say on the subject back in the 1700’s, taken from today’s reading in “George Whitefield: Daily Readings” edited by Randall Peterson and published by Christian Focus Publications.
How can you say, “Lead us not into temptation,” when you are resolved to lead yourselves into it by running into the occasions for sin? You are commanded by scripture to keep from the appearance of evil, and do you do that by running into the place and company where it is likely to be committed? No, this is so far from avoiding and shunning it, that it is a plain proof to the contrary. Take to heart the words of the psalmist in Psalm 119:101 “I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word.”
