I've often gone against the Lord's will and used for an excuse the fact that the Lord didn't "remove" or "take away" the situation placed before me. It's easy to excuse one's succumbing to temptation by blaming God for not "removing" the source of temptation in our lives. We go to the extent of saying God "wanted" us to make the (wrong) choice because He presented that situation to us.
But the fact is, temptation will cross our paths as long as we're on this earth. Even Jesus wasn't spared temptation.
However, God's given us clear instructions as to how to behave. We have everything down in black and white, more or less explicit in the Bible: which is literally Godspeak. So we really have no excuse. When faced with choices, we have His Word to refer to. He has already given us clear, specific instructions. The Word of God contains the wisdom we need to respond in the right way. The best example is Jesus himself. When tempted in the wilderness by satan, He referred to scripture to refuse and refute. So we cannot claim that we made wrong choices because God didn't tell us otherwise. Or we jumped into a situation because God "presented" the situation to us. Rather, the Bible testifies against our willful disobedience. Because it has already established what we should or should not do.
God's Word was specifically written down so that we could refer to it again and again and ascertain God's will, take His counsel in all our decisions and remind ourselves of who He is and what He desires. And when we disobey, His Word stands to testify against us.
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