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 and make sacrifices, push aside responsibilities, neglect family and friends to try to fill our need. But never find satisfaction. Because we are trying to fill our lack up with the counterfeit.
Like Edmund in “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.” He craved being important which is why being a king appealed to him. Which is who Aslan made him to be. But he listened to the beautiful witch who temps him to sacrifice even his own family to achieve his selfish desires. When if he’d only waited he would of realized that the need would be fulfilled when Aslan makes him king the right way without compromise or guilt.
God created us and He is the one that fills our needs, wants and desires without guilt, regret or shame. If we would only look to Him to fulfill the desires He has placed in us, instead of the counterfeit quick fixes. We would find fulfillment in Jesus. What He has for us is always so much better then anything we could think or dream of, and its always more then we deserve.