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Videos That Make us Laugh and Think- Pt 9- Cute Kid Temptation

By Dan | July 2, 2008

So here are the first three of GodTube’s Top 10 videos of the week. You can watch all three if you like (#8 about the Pulpit/Grill device is pretty amusing too), but the first one, #10 is what I thought was most intriguing- and not just because it’s one of those cute kid videos.

I like this video because it kind of smacks us in the face with a truth that’s ridiculously obvious, but one we often overlook. After all, how many times have you told a child not to do something and they do it again anyway. Right now my son, age 2, is really into jumping. He wants to jump onto and off everything in sight. We constantly warn him not to jump. “Reuel, if you jump off that it’s going to hurt.” What does he do? Jumps. Gets hurt, but maybe only in a minor way. “See, what did we say, it hurt didn’t it.” So what does he do? Only seconds or minutes later you see him leaping off another object and oftentimes, it hurts more. He runs crying to you, and while you comfort your child, you’re also trying to teach them a lesson- hey don’t keep doing stuff that you know is going to hurt!

Well this seems so obvious to us as parents, but what about our own behaviors as adults? What sins do you grapple with on a daily basis? Most of us have something that we struggle with and we know it hurts. We’ve gotten burned by it any number of times and yet what do we do- we keep going back to it.

Just as we want to yell out to our kids, “Hey just cut it out, you know it’s going to hurt!” God is screaming out to us. How often have you prayed, “Lead me not into temptation and deliver me from evil”? How often have you prayed a variation of this to God in regards to something specific?

God says he won’t lead us into temptation, but we need to do what we can to keep ourselves out of those situations too. Whatever it is you struggle with, think about the steps that you take before you actually do it. There are probably quite a few steps that you take before the sin is right in front of you. Break it down. How can you, or someone you trust, intervene before you ever get to the actual temptation?

Some serious food for thought after a less-than-serious movie.