FLEE FOR YOUR LIFE

FLEE FOR YOUR LIFE: Devotion for Saturday March 21, 2015

Text: Genesis 39:7 – 12          Memory verse: v 12

If you desire to live righteously, definitely you will suffer, be tried, tempted and persecuted in various ways but your ability to resist, and remain firm will win for you the crown of righteousness. Joseph avoided Potiphar’s wife as much as possible. He refused her advances and finally ran from her.

Three things made Joseph to flee for his life. 1. He considered his covenant with God that he must keep. He saw himself as one who professed religion and relation with God. Therefore he didn’t want to break that covenant relationship with God even when he was in a foreign land.

2. He saw the sin he was being tempted as grievous against God. Some might look upon it as a small matter; but Joseph didn’t think of it that way. We should always call sin by its own name, and never lessen it or modify the name so as to suit our desire or passion for it. When we have this behind our minds, it will make us run from it.

3. He saw the sin as against God and not Potiphar or his wife. Sin is against God, against His nature and His dominion, against His love and His design. Those that love God, for this reason, hate sin.

Sometimes merely trying to avoid temptation is not enough. We must turn and run, especially when the temptations seem very strong, as in the case of sexual temptations. It was the grace of God that enabled Joseph to overcome the temptation, by avoiding the tempter. Fleeing from sin is the best way to avoid the tempter and his temptation. Remember, “No degree of temptation justifies any degree of sin – Willis”

Food for Thought: “God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers” – Penn.

Prayer: My God, grant me the grace to always flee from temptation.