Laid Bare

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When a child approaches the stove, you tell them not to touch it,
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but sometimes they have to burn their finger to realize it's a bad
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thing.
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Proverbs chapter 5 says temptation is like
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the lips of an adulterous woman dripping honey,
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her speech smoother than oil, but in the end she
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is bitter as gall. Sharp as a double-edged sword.
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Keep to a path far from her; do not go near the
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door of her house. For if you travel
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too closely, she will entice you with her fragrance,
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yet one step beyond her threshold finds you deep in a pit— whether
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it be a substance, an errant thought,
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or whatever our particular weakness may be.
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Evil knows what it is, but so does God.
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Oswald Chambers, in My Utmost for His Highest,
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writes about how yielding to temptation makes
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us quickly its slave because we chose it.
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The more you try to be good, the harder you fight,
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the more you pray for it to go away, It still consumes
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you because you allowed it to.
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He continued, there is no release in
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human power at all, but only in redemption.
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You must yield yourself in utter humiliation to the
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only one who can break the dominating power— the
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Lord Jesus Christ.
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To surrender fully, a heart completely
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unmasked, unguarded,
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and laid bare.
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Too often I fight and scrape and try to climb out on my own,
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only to crumble in exhaustion.
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It is only then I fully surrender and cry out to God.
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Immediately, Jesus reached out His hand and caught me.
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We can choose to lay our hearts bare before the tempter or
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before the One who can truly break our chains.
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Father, forgive my weakness,
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my stubbornness, my foolishness.
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Help me to call on You as my first option long
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before You become my only option.