Several years ago I watched a soccer game in which one of the players skillfully stole the ball from the opposing team. With speed and precision, he maneuvered the ball down the field, and no one stopped him. Then, he kicked the ball into the goal! The problem was that he had run in the wrong direction and had delivered a point to the opposing team.
When temptation approaches us, the Bible instructs us to run, but we must be careful about the direction in which we run. Joseph fled away from Potiphar's wife when she tried to seduce him rather than running into her arms (Gen. 39:12).
The next time that temptation rears its ugly head in your life, run! But we sure to run away instead of running toward temptation. Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. (1 Cor. 6:18)
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