FAITH CAPSULE: Do not become a victim of the enticement of the devil. 

Luke 4

To see in the word of God will prompt understanding to know God.
To know God is not to know about God.
All should strive to gain understanding.
Without understanding, one cannot gain knowledge to live for God.
There is a need to understand, to know, and to avoid living a life of sin before God.
Understand and know that with sin, no one can see God.
Romans 3:23 warns about the devastation of sin, stating, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
One short of the glory of God is the evidence of one who is far from God and is set for destruction.
Understand and know how to see in the word of God, not to become a victim of sin that gains entrance into one.
Without seeing in the word of God, enticement will lead to sin.
The enemy of all is the master of deception that has been around long enough to draw one into the sin of destruction.
Jesus experienced the enticement by sin, by Satan, and could not become a failure just as Eve did.
Luke 4:1-4 documents the failure of the devil in his enticement of Jesus: “Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry. And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” But Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.”  
The enticement of the devil could not trap Jesus.
Focusing on every word of God is a key to avoiding sin before God.
Today, be warned and wise to know that if Jesus experienced enticement of the enemy, no man is above cunning devil with enticement activity to lure man into sin.
King David, a man after the heart of God, could not escape but fell for sin.
Samson was blessed with strength by God, but could not avoid sin in his life.
Samson was a miracle child, born with special instructions from God, but this was not an excuse to escape the device of enticement. 
The Bible documents in Judges 13:5, “For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.” 
Samson ended up his life blinded because he could not see the instruction of God to deliver him. 
As strong as Samson was, he became a victim of the enticement of the enemy when he failed to obey according to the Word of God. 

Prayer for today: Pray that you will not become a victim of evil devices.