Overcome Temptation
Read 1 Peter 2:11–17.
Peter writes to us as “pilgrims” of faith and encourages us to arm ourselves in our minds for the fight against sin. Though this passage is also connected to persecution, Peter’s admonition deals most directly with the suffering we face essentially because we have chosen to live differently than we did before we came to Christ.
In this passage, Peter addresses the suffering we will face in dealing with our fallen human nature. It comes in two forms: interior and exterior. Times of temptation will come to us just as surely as the Enemy came to our Lord Jesus Christ (Luke 4:1–13). But even when we don’t experience any external stimulus toward sin, we all still have a fallen nature that can taunt us—a “self-life” that is completely capable of assailing us, and at times even sounding just like the tempter! Amen
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