The devil tempted Jesus to turn stones into bread. In Palestine some stones look amazingly like little loaves of bread. I can just see the devil looking on the ground and knowing Jesus had been fasting for 40 days and he said, "Well, look here. Just turn this into bread!"
Now, there's nothing wrong with eating bread. In fact, Jesus taught us to pray for our daily bread. Yet, Jesus had been led into the wilderness to fast and pray and seek the face of God. The devil was trying to put the bread above the will of God, saying "Pamper your flesh." But, what he was really saying was, "Commit spiritual suicide." Jesus overcame the flesh, and you can, too.
Next time you start to think something that God would disapprove of, watch the second hand of a clock--you'll never get that time back, so why keep throwing it away?
"O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth you thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is."
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