Refocus
Temptation x Refocus Challenge : What you resist, persists.
If you want to defeat temptation, change your focus.
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. — Romans 12:21
Temptation always start with a thought. Advertisers use the same tactic. They get your attention & get your emotion. So you move from attention to emotions to action. Whatever gets your attention, gets you.
The more you fight a tempting thought or feeling, the more it controls you. So don’t fight it! Refocus & replace your thoughts with things that are good & make you more like Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me--put it into practice.
— Phillipians 4:8
We demolish arguments & every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
— 2 Corinthians 10
REF: Excerpt from Rick Warren’s 16 Day Devotional - Day 14, A Faith that works when life doesn’t (part 2)
