譚德是一名計程車（或私召車）司機，他很喜歡這份工作，因為時間靈活自由。舉例來說，他可以在任何時候開始和結束工作，而且不需要向任何人交代自己的工作時間和行蹤。但他說讓人感到諷刺的是，這卻是最具挑戰性的部分。

他很坦白地說：「做這份工作，要發展婚外情簡直易如反掌。我接送各式各樣的乘客，但沒有任何人，包括我太太，知道我每天在哪裡。」他坦言這不是一個容易抗拒的誘惑，有許多司機同行都已身陷其中。譚德說：「我不會這麼做，因為我很在意上帝會怎樣想，以及我的妻子會有什麼感受。」

上帝創造我們每一個人，祂深知每個人的軟弱、慾望，也知道你我多麼容易受誘惑。但哥林多前書10章11-13節提醒我們，可以請求上帝的幫助。保羅說：「上帝是信實的，必不叫你們受試探過於所能受的。在受試探的時候，總要給你們開一條出路，叫你們能忍受得住」（13節）。這「一條出路」也許是擔心自食其果、良心有愧、想起一段經文，或適時地轉移注意力等等。當我們求上帝賜下能力時，聖靈會讓我們的目光轉離誘惑，並且幫助我們看到祂賜給我們的那條出路。

Stanley loves the freedom and flexibility that his job as a private-hire driver gives him. Among other things, he can start and stop work anytime, and he doesn’t have to account for his time and movements to anyone. Yet, he said, that’s ironically the hardest part.

“In this job, it’s so easy to start an extramarital affair,” he admitted frankly. “I pick up all sorts of passengers, yet no one, including my wife, knows where I am each day.” It’s not an easy temptation to resist, and many of his fellow drivers have given in to it, he explained. “What stops me is considering what God would think, and how my wife would feel,” he said.

Our God, who created each one of us, knows our weaknesses, desires, and how easily we’re tempted. But as 1 Corinthians 10:11-13 reminds us, we can ask Him for help. “God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear,” Paul says. “When you are tempted, [God] will also provide a way out so that you can endure it” (v. 13). That “way out” could be a healthy fear of the consequences, a guilty conscience, remembering Scripture, a timely distraction, or something else. As we ask God for strength, the Spirit will turn our eyes from what’s tempting us and help us look toward the way out that He’s given us.