Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat;
but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail.
(Luke 22:31–32)My flesh and my heart may fail,
But God is the strength of my heart, my portion forever.
(Ps. 73:26)The Lord knows how to rescue the godly from
temptation. (2 Pet. 2:9)Let me just give you one more. Psalm 91 says that God has
created a shelter for you, a place where the covering shadow of
His love thoroughly shades you from the high-noon heat of
temptation. Your God, it says, is a refuge. Your God is a
fortress. Your God is trustworthy. And your God is a deliverer.
The arrows can fly by day, pestilence can stalk in the darkness,
destruction can lie in wait for you right in the middle of the
afternoon. “A thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand
at your right hand, but it shall not approach you.... For you
have made the LORD, my refuge, even the Most High, your
dwelling place” (Ps. 91:7, 9).