The Walk of Enoch

“God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13

We have a promise in this verse that God will not allow us to face temptation without providing a way of escape. Christ tells us that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6). Christ is the Way. I know that this also refers to Christ as being the only way to heaven and salvation but right now I want to talk about being guided away from sin. Every time we are being tempted we often think of it as a decision between sinning and not sinning. This is because the enemy likes to appeal to our desires and that which is pleasurable to us; making it hard for us to resist. We think that its up to our ability to recognize the temptation and to resist it with our own strength. When we think this way we are pitting our strength against demons; and as much as I hate to admit it demons are very slick. They are tricky and will wear you out. They’ll get you to focus so much on one sin that you become blind to all the other areas that they are attacking you in.

The truth is that it is not a decision between sinning and not sinning. Its a decision between following a way that leads to sin or following a way that leads to Christ. Each time we are tempted by the enemy, God counters it by providing us with an opportunity to be blessed by Him. The alternative to sin is being in the Presence. Its showing our obedience to Jesus instead of following the enemy. Its as if the enemy recognizes when the Lord is wanting to draw us close and he comes in and plants his destructive alternative. So really instead of choosing between the sin and its pleasure and no pleasure, the choice is really between the pleasure of Gods blessing and the satisfying of the flesh.

Have you ever wondered why the enemy tries so often to tempt us? Obviously the enemy wants to cause us to fall away from God and go to hell along with him. But when we are saved and we don’t fall away, why does the enemy try so often? Could it be to rob us of as many blessings as possible? Or to try to make our faith and depth of relationship with Christ to be as shallow as possible? What if there was so much more that we could receive from the Lord but our failure to recognize the temptation and more importantly, the Way that is Christ, causes us to miss out. How sad it is that we miss so many chances to walk with God because the enemy masks the moments with his filth!

We move through life so fast that these moments pass us by. We don’t realize what happened until the sin has been done and we are asking ourselves “How did I get into this place?”. We’ve got to slow ourselves down and I’ve never found a better way to do that then to spend time alone with God. Not more time reading or saying more prayers, just abiding in His Presence. Resting in His Spirit and lifting up praise to Him, contemplating on His greatness and listening for Him to speak. I find that the more time I spend with Him the more life seems to slowdown, allowing me to recognize the fork in the road moments where I can clearly see the right Way to go.