1Cor. 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.
God promises in this verse that with every temptation He will provide the way of escape also. This escape that God promises is not a way out but instead, it is a way in. He didn’t say that it was a way of escape, but He said it was THE way of escape. I believe that God’s way of escape is a WHO, not a HOW. Jesus said that He was THE way, THE truth, THE life. First Corinthians 15:57 says, “but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Notice, that the victory is a person, not a plan, or a formula. The grammar in this verse says that the victory is continually provided through the person Jesus. Therefore in every temptation our way of escape is to look inward to the indwelling Christ to be our victory over every sin. At every moment of testing, we are to look to Him who lives within, casting the temptation at His feet, thanking Him for His victory. In Romans chapter 8 Paul cries out, “Who shall deliver me from this body of death?” He didn’t say WHAT shall deliver me, but instead he said WHO. He answers his very own question soon after that in Romans 8 when he declares, “Thanks be to God through our Lord Jesus Christ…” Paul discovered that his deliverance and victory comes through a person WHO already lived in him.