The Temptations

Last night at ONEyouth God definitely showed up. Like His actually presence was in the room dealing with our hearts, and bringing us closer to himself.
The message last night was about temptations.
The Temptations were a great band in the 1960's, with chart topping hits coming out right and left. This band was the stuff back then with their good looks and choreographed moves, they had a huge fan based and all the girls loved them. they have stuck around for a long time, the songs are still listened to on radio and in many movie soundtracks. The temptations seem to not want to leave, they are just so good.
One of their most recognized songs starts out with, I know you want to leave me, but I refuse to let you go!
We talk last night about how so many times we have temptations in our life, that seem so good, they stick around for years, we know that God wants us to leave them behind, but we refuse to let them go.

We took a look at James as we have been walking through the entire book. James 1:13-18 was our passage last night.
He talks about how we cannot say that it is God that tempts us but only have ourselves to blame. We fall to temptation because of the desire that is in our heart for it.
So many times in our walk things come into our life like lust, doubt, and greed that we really don't want there. But time after time we say that we can deal with it on our own. But trying to take care of it on our own doesn't replace the desire for it inside of us. Temptation is never satisfied it always wants more, it is always looking for more.

It is not until we cut out the desire for evil, and replace it with the desire for God that our problem leaves us.
God doesn't want us to keep temporally filling up on our desire for those things, but instead he would want us to fill up with desire after him which never ends and never runs out. We need to replace the temporary with the eternal.
Temptation effects everyone.
What do we truly desire in our lives?

Temptation for evil will continue until we learn to replace it for the desire of god things.
I believe we can all overcome our temptations and grow in desire of more of God.