Keep Temptation Out of Your Freezer

I love butter pecan ice cream. I had to tell my wife, “Don’t buy any more butter pecan ice cream, because if you bring it home I’m going to eat it.” I’m not going to let butter pecan ice cream go bad in my freezer. I’m going to eat it. I know. So if I know that’s my weakness, I don’t buy it. You can buy Rocky Road. I won’t eat that. But don’t buy what I like, put it in the freezer, and expect me not to eat it.

If you make sin available and it’s the sin you enjoy, you’re going to be in trouble. We get into trouble because we go places we have no business going. The Holy Spirit warns us. He tries to keep us out of trouble, but we go anyway.

—D.Z. Cofield, “How to Triumph over Temptations,” Preaching Today, Tape 181.

See: Deuteronomy 7:25; Proverbs 4:14; 1 Corinthians 8:9-13; Ephesians 4:27-32.