I love how one author puts it, "This is the drum that beats steadily from Genesis to Revelation: God is faithful."
Yes, He is!
He is the Good Father who knows how to take care of His kids. His gifts are good. He doesn't welcome us into the family only to abandon us the next day. He sticks around and has proven Himself all-in when it come to us.
His desire is for us and desires our love. Numbered as the second in The Ten Commandments, He makes that desire clear: Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. In the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark & Luke, Jesus declares, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength." It's abundantly clear His desire is for us to be all-in, too.
When we place something --even a good something-- ahead of God, that something goes from a good thing to a god-thing. This goes for relationships with people, too. God wants to be #1 in our lives. When we are tempted to make good things into god-things, He promises we don't have to be taken down by these temptations.
So maybe the above language was difficult to understand. Side note: Try reading different translations of the Bible to help you understand what you're reading. For instance, this same verse in the Living Bible Translation reads like this...
"Remember this—the wrong desires that come into your life aren’t anything new and different. Many others have faced exactly the same problems before you. And no temptation is irresistible. You can trust God to keep the temptation from becoming so strong that you can’t stand up against it, for He has promised this and will do what He says. He will show you how to escape temptation’s power so that you can bear up patiently against it" (1 Corinthians 10:13).
Now, THAT's a promise you can count on! God is faithful!
~ "Sam"
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