Author Bryan Chapell gives a great illustration of how the love of God can deliver us from temptation and evil. Chapell remembers a scene at the St. Louis Zoo many years ago with his wife and their two young boys. Chapell’s wife, Kathy, had knelt down to untangle the stroller, and when she looked up she saw that her two preschool boys had squeezed through a small opening in the fence and then climbed up on top of the rocks surrounding the lion pen. “They had no concept of how much danger they were in. But what could Kathy do? If she screamed, she might startle the boys perched precariously above the lions. The gap in the fence was too small for her to get through. So she knelt down, spread out her arms, and said, ‘Boys, come get a hug.’ They came running for the love that saved them from danger greater than they could perceive. With a similar love, our savior beckons us from temptation that would devour us” (Bryan Chapell, Holiness by Grace [Grand Rapids, MI: Crossway, 2001).
