The more a Christian is tempted – Thomas Brooks

God had but one Son without corruption but He had none without temptation!

By temptations the Lord will make His people more and more conformable to the image of His Son.

Christ was much tempted He was often in the school of temptation; and the more a Christian is tempted, the more into the likeness of Christ he will be transformed. The most tempted Christians do most resemble Christ in meekness, lowliness, holiness, heavenliness, etc. The image of Christ is most fairly stamped upon tempted souls. Tempted souls are much in looking up to Jesus and every gracious look upon Christ changes the soul more and more into the image of Christ. Tempted souls experience much of the succouring of Christ, and the more they experience the sweet of the succourings of Christ the more they grow up into the likeness of Christ.

Temptations are the tools by which the Father does more and more carve, form, and fashion His precious saints into the similitude and likeness of His dearest Son.

By temptations, God makes . . .
sin more hateful, and
the world less delightful, and
relations less hurtful.