enjoy immediately or in the short term but will probably
later regret for various reasons. This cannot be avoided in our lives.
It may come any time. The word temptation has come to mean something bad to us today, but we tend to use the word in the wrong way.
Temptation itself is not sin; it is something we are bound to face simply by virtue of being human.
Not to be tempted would mean that we were already so shameful that we would be beneath contempt. Yet many of us suffer from temptations we should never have to suffer, simply because we have refused to allow God to lift us to a higher level where we would face temptations of another kind. I think we would be shocked if we could count the number of times we are tempted each day.
