What temptations do you need to stand against? Temptations are not sin. We can cut them off at the pass through preparation. I’m reading 1 Chronicles right now. I came to the part about David’s army. This verse caught my eye. I called my bow hunting cousin to tell him.

1 Chronicles 12:2 says of the tribe of Benjamin, “Armed with bows, using both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows with the bow…” Judges 20:16 says that 700, “…who were left handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair’s breadth and not miss.” 

David was from the tribe of Judah. Yet he was an excellent shot. One stone felled the giant before him. He was steadfast and unmoved by Goliath’s threats. Temptations are only threats when our quiver is full of the arrows of God’s word.

We prepare our sharp arrow-truths by memorizing verses that we can use to stop a temptation in its tracks. Tempted to get angry? James 1:20 says, “For the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.”