Be strong and of good courage for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. He who offers this prayer must keep a sleepless watch over his thoughts. He must beware of those times and places and states of mind in which evil thoughts intrude themselves. And he will soon learn by experience that a vacant mind and an idle life is a very door of temptation. A busy life, by God's blessing is a safe life.
Curiosity concerning evil and forbidden things is a cause of many temptations assailing the soul.
Times of reaction also, times of isolation and mental depression, are often times when it is most difficult to keep temptation out of the heart. Loneliness, also, supplies a vantage ground to temptation. It is time we stopped blaming God for our difficulties and faced up to the that it is not what happens to us that is important but how we respond to it. Our responses are our own responsibility. Selwyn Hughes God permits trials to confirm us, strengthen us the Devil and our own evil desires promote temptations to confound us.