In Corinthians the Apostle Paul writes and prays that we be strengthened with power through God's Spirit to our inner man. We all face this battle between our flesh and our spirit and temptation is impartial, it will reach out to anyone and the bible shows us that there are three types that affect us all.

Lust of the flesh - What do you need?

Lust of the eyes - What do you want?

Pride of Life - Who are you?

As born-again believers we need to have a high view of the divine inspiration of scripture, as high as Jesus’ view was. But our ultimate preoccupation should not be with the scripture itself but with the Christ to whom the scriptures point us to.

Church history has always shown the same thing. Once the high view of scripture has been abandoned by any group, any denomination, any church the downhill slide of it’s theology and practice into worldliness, compromise and error is inevitable.

Hebrews 4:13 tells us - "And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account." God is the God of the unexpected, at least from our perspective. God is near and far at the same time and encourages us to never be afraid of the unexpected because so often it's how He grows us and at the centre of any unexpected moment we find Jesus is there with us.