LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION

I told you a little while back about being in a cabin on a bluff when the last ice storm hit. The ice that glazed over everything was gorgeous and beautiful and sparkling, but it was also treacherous.

Temptation is like that. It can look so good, so tempting, so wonderful but it can also be treacherous.

Face it, we wouldn't call it temptation if it wasn't tempting.

So the next time you are attempted to do something, when you're tempted to cut corners, when you're tempted to do things the easy way instead of the hard way, when you're tempted to push the edge of the envelope just a little, thinking everybody else does it, or that you'll never get caught, just stop and weigh the consequences of your actions.