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Help Me, I'm Tempted To Do Wrong

Day 279 Reading: 1 Corinthians 6:1 - 1 Corinthians 10:33 Walking past a pastry shop they had these sumptuous looking slices of different cakes. It was my first visit to the US and the cakes I saw in that shop still remain in my mind many years later. Those who know me know that I love cake. There was a slice of fruit cake, black forest, white forest, ginger and cinnamon cake, vanilla cake, and others that I wondered what was going on. The lady at the counter saw me asking questions about the cakes and came over to ask if I wanted to buy. Of course, I wanted to buy the shop however I remembered that eating all that cake would soon have me sick. I chose to pass the offer and walk away.  As I read the passage of scripture above I asked how do we flee sin or the appearance of it? Paul writing to the Corinthians speaks of God making a way out of every temptation. Now for some, they will read about my temptation for cake and laugh however God has taught me that one's weaknes...