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What does public worship have to do with overcoming temptation? More than you might suppose, although it relates to temptation indirectly rather than directly. Remember there is really only one temptation—the temptation to choose my will over God’s will. Therefore, any discipline which requires me to choose God over self, or others over self—as public worship does—prepares me for the moment of temptation. Having learned to choose God and others over self in the spiritual environment of worship, I am now better prepared to make that same choice in the hour of temptation.
“Let us not neglect our church meetings, as some people do, but encourage and warn each other, especially now that the day of his coming back again is drawing near.”
— Hebrews 10:25 (Living Bible)
Lord help us to see You as You are so that we may worship You as we should. Amen.