...Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil....
That is the most puzzling part of the Lord's Prayer for me.
I cannot wrap my brain around Jesus the Christ asking God to lead us not into temptation but to deliver us from evil...the God Jesus purportedly preached about knows all our needs, is not capable of leading anybody into temptation or of delivering us into evil.
That's the great promise, he knows all our needs. Hence and since he supposedly knows all our needs, we are wrong to ask for anything...that's to doubt him on its face.
I ponder, and have pondered, this ever so often for years.
My today's best guess: "Lead us not into temptation" is my grateful invitation to God to receive his gift to me of my free will back from me so I do not wander over into my reasoning mind thinking where self-determined objectives take precedence over God's will.
"Deliver us from evil" is simply "deliver us from ego," from ego-victory thinking.
I'm fairly certain that this time a year from now I'll have an entirely different understanding, but that makes sense (to my reasoning mind) now.
Thank You.
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