bear, but also with the temptation make a way to bear it, and deliver us from evil through Jesus Christ.’ We are not praying that we should not be tempted, but that we should not give in to sin’s seductive allurements. God never causes us to enter into temptation, but he does deliver us from it—as the second part of this petition teaches. We are encouraged to pray here for God’s keeping power in times of testing and temptation. ‘Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation,’ the Lord
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