8/19/14

"Lead us not into temptation" (Matt. 6:13). "Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation." (Matt. 26:41). What is temptation? It is always, in one way or another, the deception that something is more to be desired than God and his ways. Therefore, the prayer for deliverance is that we would not fall for that deception but always taste and know that God and his ways are to be desired above all others.
John Piper, When I Don't Desire God: How to Fight for Joy, p. 147