Proof!

There is one thing I love about this awful story.

Joseph is proof that it is possible to resist temptation.

He was tempted with very strong temptation, but he didn't fall.

It IS possible! We hear so much today of people falling into sin. It sometimes seems like it's impossible to stay pure when tempted. We even hear of preachers and pastors doing disgraceful things. There are so many girls that go astray in their teen years-get pregnant before marriage, stop going to church, live with a guy before marriage, rebel against their parents. There is so much peer pressure and temptations for teenage girls today. Is it really possible to stand—to stay pure, to live right, to be different?

Joseph is proof! We don't have to fall and make a mess of our lives.

1 Corinthians 10:13

“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” 

But we must stay close to God like Joseph did. We can't do it on our own.

I read an illustration once that sums it up pretty well. People are like toothpicks and God is like a nail. A toothpick on its own is easy to snap but a toothpick alongside a nail is impossible to snap because of the strength of the nail.

So in our own strength we'll fall easily, but close to God and trusting in His strength we won't snap! We must stay close to God all the time.

Jude 24 “Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.”