And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. (Matthew 6:13)
Jesus teaches us to pray for protection from temptation and evil. It seems here that God actually can (and sometimes does) lead us into temptation. But this is only part of the picture. This does not convey our responsibility in the process.
Simone Weil, reflecting on this part of the Lord’s Prayer writes -
Jesus teaches us to pray for protection from temptation and evil. It seems here that God actually can (and sometimes does) lead us into temptation. But this is only part of the picture. This does not convey our responsibility in the process.
Simone Weil, reflecting on this part of the Lord’s Prayer writes -
"The only temptation for man is to be abandoned to his own resources in the presence of evil."
God does not push us into temptation, but sometimes lets us go there to experience it for ourselves. Then, when we call on the name of the LORD, we are delivered from the consequences of our sin by the grace of Christ.
You might say God does not so much lead us into temptation, as through it.
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