Our Purpose Driven Life(English Version)

CHAPTER 27 February 17, 2004 8:27pm - 9:30pm

     The temptation has solution, to get away from this, you need to divert your mind, you focus on other things because for example you want to have a diet, usually when you want to lose weight, yes at first you can get rid of foods but then it will come to you that you will feel starvation, eat and forget about diet, because you are imagining eating cake, cholesterol, just thinking of it will make your tummy crave for it, divert it to other things like if you will exercise you will lose weight, that's it if there is no food involve for sure you will lose weight, and that's effective. Or like me my addictiveness on masturbation, being attract to handsome, masculine like that. Then after i arrive home i will think of it then i'll masturbate, or i will watch porn to masturbate.

     But now when i am tempted to masturbation i'm thinking of food, and if that's what i'm imagining then it is more effective that i will not masturbate, or i totally forgot doing it. Or like if i feel that my body is itchy, if you will scratch it continually, the part of your body that you scratch will turn to scars, that's why yesterday evening, i had a discontinuing sleep cause of the itchy part but i don't want to scratch, i did not scratch it, i just imagine that i remove a needle, ants to the itchy part of my body, but the itchiness will come back quickly, what i should have do, is just divert my thoughts, because we are being move of our thoughts.

     You are not wondering why when someone yawn, you will yawn too, but if you will divert your thoughts, you will not be affected. Because we are strong, and we can fight temptation, that if we will divert our thoughts to someone else, we will be the one to win.

     Lord God our Father and our Creator will give us idea to go out from temptation, He will help us. but we should abide it. And we need a like Christ friend to tell them our weakness, when we are being tempted, we ask for opinion on what is the right thing to do, and ask for prayer to overcome temptation.

     we need to remove our thoughts of having so much confidence to ourselves that we can handle temptation alone, because if we can handle it, even before we already overcome temptation, because if you did not tell your temptation or ask for help, then it means that you cannot handle it. we need to be humble. Because those who have confidence is with God, but those who are humble are more being granted to their wishes.

     What we need to resist or fight for is the demons, satan because temptation should be diverted to other things, but we need to face demons and satan, but how?. What we need to do is our helmet should be our salvation or giving up sins. And our weapon will be the words of Lord God our Father and our Creator.

     Like what Jesus Christ our Brother and Messiah did when He was tempted in the wilderness after 40 days and 40 nights, the homily of the priest was on timing this morning. Thanks to Lord God our Father and our Creator.

     Lord Jesus Christ was being tempted also, first is the treasure, He can make the huge stone to bread, always the demon says because you are the Son of God, most of the time so He can be tempted more, second is the power, the demon promise that if He worship the demon He will give all the lands that He can see from above the wilderness where He was, and the third is famousness, if He jump from the top to the ground, He will not get scars or be killed because Lord God our Father and our Creator will have mercy for Him and the angels will fly Him to go down safe. But He did not do it and He's words are the words of God, He did not fight the demons by using harsh words because satan and demons are used to fighting that it will take thousand of years for you to bit them, but satan and demons are very afraid to the words of God so that's should be your weapon to your gun.

     We should memorize the verses of the bible every day, every week we need to memorize one verse. Imagine how strong you are if you have many learned verses from the bible.

     our heart is the cause why we are being tempted, because we are a loving person, we feel mercy. That might be one of a kind of temptation that we will experience, that's why no matter what, think that you are in the temptation process no matter what decisive way it is. And we are strong to temptation if from the start of the temptation we are turning away, not when you are in the middle of the temptation then you will turn back. For example you are in the swimming pool and if you are on the feet that you can stand without drowning and you go further a bit then you can go back easily, rather than you go the feet that you will be drown and you still went there then it will be hard for you to go back.