“Choose your temptation.” At first glance, I missed the “breakfast” in the sign’s headline. I’m in queue at the Starbucks at the hotel where I’m staying this week.
I think, “Interesting. Choose your temptation. I bet Jesus would have fun with that play on words.
I suppose we can choose that which will tempt us.
The real question is how do we recognize and respond to temptation.
I recognized that advertisement as a temptation to overeat. Now that I recognize the emotion as a temptation, I can make another choice. Maybe for health and keeping my waistline down. (I ate a nutrition bar in my room along with my Americano).
Some temptations are more difficult to recognize. It may take a while.
Wisdom is letting experience teach us to recognize temptation sooner.
Or we could pray “Lead me not into temptation.”
Faith Venture 
May 24, 2017 at 9:19 am |
Or wisdom AND prayer. Which you know. But in this area (and others), I think there is shared responsibility. Thank you.