My own thought is that temptation is driven by the lie that some need of mine will be satisfied if I do what I have been told not to do and if I do not do what I have been told to do. 

The truth is that this need, whatever it is, will actually be made bigger if I do what I have been told not to do, if I do not obey the exhortation to behave righteously.  The need will actually grow in the way that a hole becomes deeper when, rather than putting dirt into it we shovel more out.

We have been shown the way to satisfy our needs, the greatest of which is, contrary to our conditioning and our culture, being loved.  Sin seems to me to be either a wrong approach to seeking to be loved or trying to put something in our lives to replace it.

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