We cave in immediately without much of a fight. But temptation feeds on weakness and bent desires. We need to start struggling to see what holiness is all about, to see if we will like it in eternity with God. We will also see just how strong we are and what we are made of. And yet with God it was possible.
Spiritual growth seems so impossible in the moment, and so easy in retrospect.
After all, this too will pass. We can, and will make it by the grace of God. Every temptation that has come your way is the kind that normally comes to people. Even if a man is detected in some sin, my brothers, the spiritual ones among you should quietly set him back on the right path, not with any feeling of superiority but being yourselves on guard against temptation. Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.