Wednesday, March 23, 2016 Lead Us Not into Temptation
Now to you who believe, this stone is
precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has
become the capstone,’” and, “A stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that
makes them fall.” 1Peter 2:7-8
Citizenship
in the New Jerusalem is not something earned; it is a gift of God that honors
us. Isaiah 8:14 explains that although Christ was to be a sancturary for Judah
and Israel, those who rejected Him would fall in unbelief and be crushed.
Unless they repent and come to faith, sin will destroy them. [1]
What
is the Sixth petition? Lead us not into temptation. What does this mean? God
tempts no one. We pray in this petition that God would guard and keep us so
that the devil, the world, and our sinful nature may not deceive us or mislead
us into false belief, despair, and other great shame and vice. Although we are
attacked by these things, we pray that we may finally overcome them and win the
victory.[2]
Lord God, whose
blessed Son our Savior gave his body to be whipped and his face to be spit
upon: Give us grace to accept joyfully the sufferings of the present time,
confident of the glory that shall be revealed; through Jesus Christ your Son
our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever
and ever. Amen[3]
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