Our desires are extremely powerful. Now not all desires are wrong. Many desires keep us alive and cause us to be healthy, well adjusted human beings. But even good desires, taken to excess, can cause us great harm. The desire for food, or sex, or relief from pain can turn into obsessions that control our lives.
Temptation begins with desire.
And it leads to deception . James tells us that because of our desire we are dragged away and enticed . And the purpose of bait is deception. If you bait your hook with a nice juicy worm, you have two purposes in mind. The first is to lure the fish.