CONQUER TEMPTATIONS

SANCTITY 

HOW TO ABSTAIN FROM TEMPTATIONS - RISE ABOVE THE LURES AND ENTICEMENTS.....SAINTLINESS.... OR JUST COMMON SENSE ??? 

We ask : " will it cause harm ? We do a checklist with our three trees......."will it defile our purity ? Is it the truth ? Is it from love...Godly love, not sex love ? We all know :- see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil and do no evil. How will we know this, when temptations are dressed in purity, innocence and beauty ? The truth is only exposed further down the line, once we have fallen hook, line and sinker, then it becomes a real stinker. As temptations are very deceiving we need special wisdom and insight and therefore need a guide to help us along. As our trees are rooted through the soul of into the knowledge of divinity, this is where we connect our minds to search for guidance. Here we are connected to the Spirit, or "wavelength" of Godly wisdom and will be able to see clearly where the temptations will lead. Whatever we read and hear will become our words and actions - garbage in......garbage out. The water we use to grow our trees will be what we select to enter our eyes and ears. When something sinister crosses our path, we get a gut feel.....a warning that we should heed...check it out. Our mind will say "what harm can it cause, what could possibly go wrong ?", our heart will say " I so desire that", but our gut will say "no, don't do it !" WE LISTEN TO OUR GUT .....Tell the heart to wait, send the mind on a mission of discovery to check it out. This is now the spirit speaking. We become all excited and jump in feet first and months, even years later the rest of us catches up and we find ourselves up to our noses in muck and we're struck and have no clue on how to get out. So we grovel around in the dirt coming up for a breath every now and then. To get out of this is a major ordeal and it steals the greater part of our life. It is such an easy smooth journey in, but a massive mess to escape from. All stumbling blocks and obstacles are taken out of the way on route and put back to block the way out again. There are a few very important questions to ask ourselves - "will it bring shame and embarrassment to me or my family ? Will it bring disgrace or debt of any kind...... emotional, mental, spiritual or physical ? Will we do this in full view of our family and friends and strangers ? Will it benefit me and others or will it cost, and if so, what is the cost ? Will it bring harm to creation or others, or even the self ? One of life's greatest traps is doing things that we need to hide and keep secret..... there are no secrets.  SOMEONE ALWAYS KNOWS AND WILL USE IT AS A TOOL TO MANIPULATE US. The reason they know is because they have planted the temptation. Our lives should be completely transparent so anyone, at any time can look into it and find nothing to use against us in any way. To try and negotiate all the trickery, deceit and corruption on our own is simply not humanly possible, it is too well concealed and disguised. One of the greatest mysteries of a successful life is to have the right connections - something that cannot be trapped, something that cannot fall into men's hands and be used against us and the only thing I know is the love and wisdom of God which is above all worldly things and powers........ this cannot be chained and herein lays our freedom - never to be brought into bondage....©