ha, today's YYP meeting is on temptation... 2nd week into it...
and sadly, today my group was back to the sheer number of people again... with an attendance of around 10 people :(
nevertheless, i had one of my most enjoyable meetings so far...
anyway, the meeting started off with bro. wicky introducing about what temptation is... in the old testament, 'tempt' meant 'test'. But in the new testament, 'tempt' means to entice and to try to make you do things that will result in sin.
Later that, he told us how temptation works, namely, the setup to start tempting you, the trigger which will cause you to be in the dilemma, our response to the situation, and lastly the outcome of our acts. At times, the setup may not be there to try to tempt you but the devil and our desires will make use of such situation to make you fall into temptation and causes you to sin!! Thus, we need to overcome temptation by His Grace and mercy. Only through then, can we know what is right and wrong so that we will not be easily given to temptation, but to be an overcomer :)
Afterwards, he sort of ended off by showing us a list that shows what are the top 11 temptations that we all face... with $$ being the no. 1... and surprisingly, woman dressing scantily was ranked 3rd... WOW!
After all the introduction stuff to the topic, we then break into groups to discuss the temptations that we face in our daily living, and to clear any doubts we have with regards to the topic. haha... and oh, while we were halfway through talking about the temptations faced by bible characters, all of a sudden, bro. peh khian cracked a seemingly funny joke about portifar's (or sth like that) wife without any 'warning'... " Does portifar's wife looks like a pot?" LOL. it took us a while before we realise it la... so ????? haha... but it was damn funny after that... so lol lar... haha....
anyway, back to the main theme... well, through this 1 hour plus of sharings, I have enjoyed the fact that we and Eve are easily ensnared by temptation is because of the lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and the pride of life... never kinda knew that it was catergorised into these 3 sections. Also, I have enjoyed the part that although we may be tempted by our closest kin and at times disobeying them to do the right things, which made us 'sin' against our parents, as long as we know that we should do things that pleases God, it is ok if we disobeying them... providing that we are doing things for the sake of God.
oops... time's rather late... gtg now... and that reminds me that i have an assignment from bro. peh khian to answer why Joseph can overcome the temptation of woman but David cannot? till then... see you soon again :)
