Will We Ever Be Tempted?

Will we be tempted to turn our backs on Christ? No. What would tempt us? Innocence is the absence of something (sin), while righteousness is the presence of something (God’s holiness). God will never withdraw from us his holiness; therefore we cannot sin.

We’ll never forget the ugliness of sin. People who’ve experienced severe burns aren’t tempted to walk into a bonfire. Having known death and life, we who will experience life will never want to go back to death. We’ll never be deceived into thinking God is withholding something good from us or that sin is in our best interests.

Satan won’t have any access to us. But even if he did, we wouldn’t be tempted. We’ll know not only what righteousness is but also what sin is—or was. We’ll always know sin’s costs. Every time we see the scarred hands of King Jesus, we’ll remember. We’ll see sin as God does. It will be stripped of its illusions and will be utterly unappealing.

Because our hearts will be pure and we’ll see people as they truly are, every relationship in Heaven will be pure. We’ll all be faithful to the love of our life: King Jesus. We couldn’t do anything behind his back even if we wanted to. But we’ll never want to.

We’ll love everyone, men and women, but we’ll be in love only with Jesus. We’ll never be tempted to degrade, use, or idolize each other. We’ll never believe the outrageous lie that our deepest needs can be met in any person but Jesus.

Often we act as if the universe revolves around us. We have to remind ourselves it’s all about Christ, not us. In Heaven we’ll see reality as it is and will, therefore, never have to correct our thinking. This will be Heaven’s Copernican revolution—a paradigm shift in which we’ll never again see ourselves as our center of gravity. Jesus Christ will be our undisputed center, and we won’t want it any other way.

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By Randy Alcorn
Eternal Perspective Ministries
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