{"id":954,"date":"2010-03-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/?p=954"},"modified":"2010-02-20T12:14:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T11:14:24","slug":"lent-devotions-2010-friday-26-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/2010\/03\/26\/lent-devotions-2010-friday-26-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent Devotions 2010: Friday 26 March"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAnd lead us not into temptation.\u201d\u00a0 Lord’s Prayer, Sixth Petition<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Since he first tempted Adam and Eve to doubt God\u2019s word, saying \u201cDid God actually<\/em> say, \u2018You shall not eat of any tree in the garden?\u2019\u201d (Gen 3:1b), the devil has continued to tempt man to doubt.\u00a0 We are assailed daily with the temptations of the devil, who tries to get us to doubt the promises of God . Even while we confess with our mouths that we believe in God and His saving grace, we continue to doubt in our hearts.\u00a0 Why else do we so easily fall into despair when things don\u2019t go the way we want them to?\u00a0 We know that God \u201cworks all things for good\u201d (Rom 8:28) and yet we feel lost and forsaken.\u00a0 Even though we know that Jesus took all of our sins on Himself when He suffered and died, the devil tempts us to take those sins back and to doubt God\u2019s forgiveness.<\/p>\n

But we are not alone in being tempted.\u00a0 Our heavenly Father, who gives all good gifts, even allowed His Son to be tempted by Satan in the wilderness.\u00a0 The devil tried to tempt Jesus to put physical comforts ahead of the Word of God and to seek worldly glory instead of worshipping God (Matt 4:1-11).\u00a0 But Jesus did not succumb to the devil.\u00a0 The perfect Son of God, true God and true man, fulfilled the law on our behalf.\u00a0 He was \u201cobedient to the point of death, even death on a cross\u201d (Php 2:8).<\/p>\n

In this petition we pray that God would help us to follow Jesus\u2019 example and not succumb to temptations of the devil, the world and our sinful flesh.\u00a0 Especially we pray that God would keep us in the one true, saving faith, holding fast to His promise of forgiveness, life and salvation.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Dear heavenly Father, You did not spare Your only Son, sending Him to earth to take on the form of a man, to be tempted by the devil and to suffer and die for us.\u00a0 Help us to resist the temptation to doubt Your word and promises, for You are faithful and will raise us on the last day to eternal life with You. Amen.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAnd lead us not into temptation.\u201d\u00a0 Lord’s Prayer, Sixth Petition Since he first tempted Adam and Eve to doubt God\u2019s word, saying \u201cDid God actually say, \u2018You shall not eat of any tree in the garden?\u2019\u201d (Gen 3:1b), the devil has continued to tempt man to doubt.\u00a0 We are assailed daily with the temptations of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent-devotions-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}