Temptation is attractive. That’s the reason it’s tempting. Just because something is fun or enjoyable for a moment doesn’t make it a good choice. Especially if we feel guilty or worse after.
Temptation leads us slowly to make compromise after compromise to fulfill a growing need that is never really satisfied. So we go deeper, push aside responsibilities, neglect family and friends to try to fulfill our need but never find satisfaction. Because we are trying to fill our lack with the counterfeit.
Like Edmund in “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.” He craved being important which is why when the White Witch offered for him to be a prince, it appealed to him. If Edmund had just waited Aslan would make him a king but Edmund tried to achieve it on his own. He listened to the White Witch because she offered an almost immediate answer to his need. Edmund even used his own family to try achieve his selfish desires. When if he’d only waited his need would of been fulfilled by Aslan when he makes him king the right way without compromise or guilt.
God’s timing matters. Because in the waiting is when he prepares us for what he plans to bless us with. He places in us desires but we often look to fulfill them on our own with counterfeit quick fixes. When if we would only look to him he will fulfill the needs he put in us beyond anything we could of achieved on our own.
God created us and he is the one that fills our needs, wants and desires without guilt, regret or shame. We find our fulfillment in Jesus. What he has for us is always so much better then anything we could think, dream or imagine and its always more then we deserve.
