[Manna - November 11]
Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue. (fortitude). 2 Peter 1:5
ONE great difficulty with the Lord's people is that,
even when determined for a right course and thus
resisting the temptation, they do not take sufficiently
positive action.
Many say to the tempter, I have concluded
not to yield at this time.
Thus they leave in
their own minds an opportunity open by which the
tempter may return.
Our Lord's course was the proper
one: we should dismiss the tempter once and forever.
We should take our stand so firmly that even
the adversary would not think it worth while to come back at us along that line; "Leave me, adversary—I will worship and serve my God alone." Z. '04-10 R3299:6