The Other day I wrote about how our daughter and her boyfriend went to Mars Hill, and she wrote and told me that he wasn’t her boyfriend, he is her FIANCÉE’

SORRY!    I didn’t know you couldn’t be BOTH!!!!  Can’t my wife also be my girlfriend??? My Best Friend??   Why Not??

I’m so old school,  I don’t know what the correct etiquette is now days

Anyhow,  they are getting married next May and then the little rat is oving to New York with her Fiancée’

Oh No HER HUSBAND!!!,  Or Boyfriend,  or best friend,  or whatever!!

On to more important things, tonight my youngest son and I went for a bike ride, he has a 10 or 18 speed and my wife and I have Old Folks single speeds.

As we began we passed a Ice Cream guy, you know one of those little trucks that torment little kids who are broke.

He began to follow us!

I was peddling as hard as I could trying to outrun temptation, but I was losing.

He knew the best way to sell ice cream is to follow a fat guy on a single speed bike!!!

But reprieve came when a kid got his attention and took him off our trail, we peddled around the corner and lost him.

Until

We came back

There he was, waiting

like a blood hound on a scent of a skunk,  an ice cream guy eyeballing a fat guy on a single speed after a two mile ride, huffing and puffing, next to death

Now was his chance to tempt me into submission

But I mustered up my strength and gave it everything I had and I passed that Ice Cream Tempter and sailed into my garage!!!

Temptation is something we all have to deal with from the time we’re born until the time we die, it is true, the longer we’re a Christian and the older we get, the easier it is to recognise it and run faster.

And it is also true, there are some things that were very tempting when your younger that just don’t appeal to you any longer.

But don’t think that Satan gives up, he just finds other things that might appeal.

I have a hard time passing up Musketeer Bars!!!  I’ve spent up to $1. in a vending machine just to have it!!

But all of us have things that we can be tempted with, and we have to know what those things are and then diligently stay away from it.

Its not always easy, but the more you pray about those things and practice moving away from it when it confronts you, the easier it becomes to no longer be tempted by it.

God can give you the strength we need to move away from temptation by the Spirit of God that he gives us when we get saved.

The other day a car passed me and on the trunk it had one of those Christian fish symbols, but in the center of it, was the name Darwin and there was a foot on the bottom.

I know what they were expressing, that God the creator used evolution to create the universe.  I was TEMPTED to run the car over and take that unrighteous symbol off.

There’s been an upsurge of Satan attacking God as creator with trying to get people to believe that you can reconcile the bible and evolution.

Either you believe in the power of God as creator who didn’t need any help from darwin or you don’t.

Only heathens believe in evolution.

The point is, we’re all tempted to sin,  be it a Musketeer Bar or running someone off the road to remove an anti God symbol.

Keep yourself from temptation,  because when it is invited in, it will take root, and it will destroy you and your relationship with Christ and with others.