Tempting temptations

Just when you think it's safe, that is when you must be on guard. Temptation is a danger because one thinks "Oh, surely now I am safe," but that turns out to be a lie, and we know whom the Father of Lies really is. It is easy to say "God is tempting me," but that too is a lie.

Temptation, like heresy, is alluring because it is close to the truth, it makes perfect sense, yet in one way or another, veers dangerously from the truth. So is the way with temptation, we think that we have become immune to this or to that temptation only to find that we are more vulnerable to it today than we were six months ago!

We say, "But it is love"

Or, "Just one bite"

Again, "Just this once."

Trapped! You have crossed the line, fallen into the grip of the temptation and it will surely drag you down. Hobbes was wrong, the State is no the many armed monster, it is temptation with its many arms that drags you down, destroys your self esteem, and sets you back three months in your own eyes.

The only way to save ourselves, and I quote Gary, the Cosmic Hobo: To plunge our broken, imperfect selves daily into the renewing waters of his love.