Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Jesus taught his disciples to pray and I’ve always found one phrase in the Lord’s Prayer bewildering, “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one” (Matt 6:13 NIV). However, once I combine this thought with the temptation of Jesus it makes more sense, “Then Jesus was led by the spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil” (Matt 4:1 NIV). It’s almost as though I can hear Jesus telling me, “I’ve been there, done that and you don’t want to go there.”