Thoughts..

I've not been very good about doing "Sunday Scriptures" for a while, but I still do study things. Recently, in my reading, I came across this quote from Spencer W. Kimball and I thought was cool.

Pres Kimball was expounding on the story of Christ being tempted and things we can learn from this:

"The importance of not accommodating temptation in the least degree is underlined by the Savior's example. Did not he recognize the danger when he was on the mountain with his fallen brother, Lucifer, being sorely tempted by that master tempter? [see Matthew 4: 1-11.] He could have opened the door and flirted with danger bysaying, 'All right, Satan, I'll listen to your proposition. I need not succumb, I need not yield, I need not accept -- but I'll listen.'

"Christ did not so rationalize. He positively and promptly closed the discussion, and commanded: 'Get thee hence, Satan,' meaning, likely, 'Get out of my sight... I will have nothing to do with you.' Then, we read, 'the devil leaveth him.'

"This is our proper pattern, if we would prevent sin rather than be faced with the much more difficult task of curing it. As I study the story of the Redeemer and his temptations, I am certain he spent his energies fortifying himself against temptation rather than battling with it to conquer it." (The Miracle of Forgiveness, 216-217).