Recently I have been doing a study on God's Restraining Grace where God reaches out to unchristians and
Christians alike and at His discretion prevents one from committing sin.
Now that I have a better understanding of Restraining Grace I can see in my past where God has done
this for me. I think it goes along with "lead me not into temptation and deliver me from evil."
So, here is another area in my life and in the life of others where I/we need to thank God.
I can praise and thank God, just like King Abimelech, that God does keep me from sinning in some areas.
[3] But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife.” [4] Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, “Lord, will you kill an innocent people? [5] Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.” [6] Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.
Genesis 20:3-6
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