Memorise : Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure . 1 Timothy 5:22
Read: 2 Samuel 11:1-5
It will shock you to know that it is easier to manage lack and hardship than to manage abundance and pleasure. If you live in a single room in a “face-me-i-face-you” building (building with multiple tenants of low-income class), it is easier for you to wake up and pray even at night than when you live in an expensively furnished bedroom with water bed in a mansion overseeing the sea. When you want to get up to pray in such a house, the comfort of the bed will motivate you to sleep some more. Before you know , it will be dawn. Let us take the case of David as an example(2 Samuel 11:1, 12:14). While David was being chased from cave to cave,he had no time to think of adultery, but after been crowned king and baptized into comfort, when he should be at war , he was resting and so he saw what he should not have seen and got into trouble.
It is important to be where God wants you to be always. During evangelism, He expects you to be in the field witnessing to souls. During rehearsal time or Sunday School preparatory class, God expects you there if you are a teacher. He expects you in service during the time for service.Any time you are not where God expects you to be, you open yourself to see or encounter what you should not , and you may found yourself in trouble. Do you know that the devil could have planned for one of the David’s servants who stayed in the palace to be one to see the naked Beersheba?But because David was in a wrong place ,he got trapped by this temptation. Many people , like David,have entered into problem not planned for them and became victims of stray temptations. One way to avoid this is by being where God wants you to be at every point in time. But even when confronted with such temptations, know that God’s grace is sufficient to overcome all temptations. Ask God to guide your steps aright from today.
PRAYER POINT:Father ,order my steps according to your will and Word. Let me be where you want me to be at every point in time.
