Louisville Week-End Retreat
9/7/2007
Adversity or Adventure?
Temptation touches us where we need to be touched, for its origin is our own stimulated desire. (James 1:14) Temptation, therefore, establishes us in sanctification; it presses us into Christ. It exercises us in conscious abiding; it compels us, by trial and error, to find our helplessness with no hope outside of Christ living in us. We shall continue to be tempted where we are most vulnerable, that is God's right way with us, until at last it dawns on us that appetites do not change, human responses do not change, temptations do not change; there will never be a hope of relief or release, not after forty years any more than one year, except in the Absolute Other within, who is the Positive that negates the negative, the Light that swallows the darkness. That fact only will stabilize us in the only way of deliverance, the daily walk of faith.
Many came and joined in to share a subject that has kept most of the body of Christ crippled for lack of understanding of how to accept and see the value of temptation. Listen below to what was shared and see who attended this year.