For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

Psalms 30:5 NKJV

The story of Jesus Christ’s temptation is very instructive. He was led of the spirit to the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. Hmmm! Now, that doesn’t sound like what we think the Holy Spirit will do. I know we have a butter-and-bread gospel and sugar-and-milk Christianity. Which is true; our promise land flows with milk and honey. But we need to pass through the wilderness; a place of solitude, where family and friends suddenly disappear, where help appears afar off coupled with all kinds of pressures, ranging from economic, social, peer, career, etc., coupled with the devil presenting us with all kinds of alternatives. The pressure to compromise, lower the standard and shift ground is real. 

The only way Jesus was able to overcome the temptation was not a change of environment, change of job, change of circumstances, but by ‘it is written’, ‘this is what God says’. We don’t overcome the challenges of life using carnal weapon, we overcome by applying the Word of God. 

Also know that the situation is only temporal, if you refuse to compromise, refuse to yield and choose to stand on God’s word, things will change. The Bible says, “Afterwards angels came to minister to Him.” God will elevate you, you will experience angelic ministration, your outcome will be supernatural. In the book of Job 42, everyone that forsook Job in his affliction came back to minister to him and his latter became greater than his former. With God, you will never know a better yesterday whatever you’re going through today is temporal and subject to change. “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.”

Recommended text for further reading:

2 Corinthians 4: 17-18; Matthew 4: 1- 11.