Many of us have said the Lord's Prayer thousands of times in our lives. We learned it in Sunday School and have even turned to it for guidance as adults. But there is an issue with the ninth line of this prayer "Lead us not into temptation".
I know that I feel constantly surrounded by temptations. Temptations of every sort bombard me almost without cease. But if I have prayed that God "lead me not into temptation" then how are all these temptations there?
The short answer, I'm leading myself. God is not tempting me to sin. When I find myself surrounded by temptation then I have wondered from the path that God has set out for me. God's path would not lead me there, but temptation is exactly what I find when I go my own way.
While God's way may not look all that different to someone else the temptation we pass on His path seem somehow further away and less appealing.
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