Article December 10, 2012 Issue

Defeating the devil

Mark McCurties

Have one God and you will have no devil.

—Mary Baker Eddy, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 252

As we go along through life, we all have to deal with temptation. Temptations might appear in different forms for each one of us, but anything that would attempt to pull us away from the purity, love, and obedience that God imparts is a type of evil that needs to be overcome.