Growing Through Temptation and succeed: The Garden of Eden

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Growing Through Temptation and succeed
One of the problems in our lives today was sin, and it was caused by temptation. Most people after going through temptation they succeed, others are not. Temptation is something really interesting to you and you want to know more of it or experience it, but once you have done it, it will last only for a short time period and surely it will bring you suffering. The first temptation in this world was from the beginning in the Garden of Eden. Eve was told not to go to the tree but she disobeyed God, She was curious about what the serpent told her and ate the apple with Adam. They were happy for a short time period and God made them suffered for what they have done. It was all Satan’s trap to destroy us where ever we are and make us weak in our spiritual growth, but we were lucky enough to have God and He always there for us. He also uses temptations to test our faith in Him and be developed to overcome them.
All temptations give people a chance not to be suffered but to be better. When growing through temptation it gives us the rights to choose the good from the bad, but to know this, we have to understand the characters of Jesus and developed them in our lives and that was the fruit of the Holy Spirit. When we applied His characters, love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, gentleness, self control and faithfulness we would make right choices every time whenever we have come across temptations (warren, 2002, p.130). (Mayhew, 2000, p. 131)Satan came to Jesus in the open wide desert and tempts Him and said, ‘Jesus you have come to this earth to stay as a normal human, but there is an easy way to satisfy your basic human needs.’ Satan‘s tactics are still the same when tempting us. He may te...

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...ttack. (1 Peter 5: 8) Our faith in God has to be strong, talking to Him through pray every time. We also have to get involved of religious activities to maintain our relationship with God. If we have done all those things to avoid temptation or maybe we have gone through it, we will always become success out of it. (Christian world view journal, 2013, para 1-5)

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