TEMPTATION;
SPIRITUAL VICTORY

To want a thing, or feel that we want it, and then to turn from it because we see that it is contrary to the will of God is to win a great battle on a field larger than Gettysburg or Bunker Hill. To bring our desires to the cross and allow them to be nailed there with Christ is a good and a beautiful thing. To be tempted and yet to glorify God in the midst of it is to honor Him where it counts.

Romans 7:24–25; 1 Corinthians 10:13; 2 Corinthians 2:14

The Root of the Righteous, 133.