Stand Up

DEVOTION

1 CORINTHIANS

STAND UP

1 Cor 10:11-13

11 These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come. 12 So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! 13 No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

NIV

We can be sure that we have not been tempted by anything that isn’t a normal temptations for every human being. As far as temptations go, they have always been and will always be around us, facing us at every moment of our lives. If we think for one moment that we do not have any temptations we are doing nothing but fooling ourselves. We know that Satan is the author of temptation, for God will not tempt us in doing wrong, that which does not please him. Satan is not as powerful as God as he was created by God in first place, and thus God can control the amount of temptation that Satan throws at us. That sounds crazy, but it sure seems that is what is being said here, unless Satan throws an overwhelming uncontrollable amount of temptation at us and God intervenes and filters out the excess so we will only be tempted in the amount that we can withstand. But no matter how all that works God will still provide a way out of the temptation for us. Yet if we fall, or we should say when we fall, the way to stand up under that is in Christ. For yet while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. That is our way out. It is doubtful that will ever be able to resist all temptations for the rest of our lives, here on earth. So the only way out in order the stand up under temptation is to know God is our way out. We cannot give up, lose faith, get down and turn from our Lord, hiding from him as Adam and Eve did. We must face up to our weakness and trust that God will always be there for us, forgiving, and helping us to resist more and more each time faced with those temptations. So Stand up.