1. It is said that resisting any evil to which the soul is tempted will increase the hatred for that sin. When one fights a particular sin, he will develop a loathing for that sin. He views it as an old and bitter enemy. It is not only the principal agents of long and bitter feuds between families that are hated, but their children, relatives, and property as well. A persistent fight against some old ruling passion, some old besetting sin, arouses in the soul a universal vengeance, not only against the old sin itself, but also against all its relatives, and a jealous hatred towards all the steps leading up to that sin. Throughout history, the holiest saints were those who were the most sorely tempted. It is a great blessing to loathe sin, and an even greater blessing to loathe the one that has caused the most harm. The very places where we have been weakest are precisely where God intends for us to triumph. The Holy Ghost must take possession of the believer and require endless crucifixion of self. However, thousands of cases have shown that it can and has been done. Those victories have been brought about by terrible temptations to sin that developed a boundless, unrelenting hatred for the sin.
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2. The temptation drives us to a deep and serious study of ourselves. It makes us dissect our feelings, our intentions, our motives, and our habits; it makes us examine the quality of our actions, words, thoughts; it makes us examine our chances of going to heaven or hell; and it makes us investigate the very foundation of our character in solitude. It compels us to study the awful nature of sin; it causes us to recognize the danger of wrong affections, of evil thoughts, of improper words; it opens our eyes to the hell-fire that sleeps stealthily behind the little sins. The pathway to gaining a deep understanding of ourselves and of sin is to be thoroughly tempted.
3. Our weakness and nothingness are revealed by temptation. We are taught true humiliation and self-abasement when our cleverness and our smartness are withered. Our talkativeness is clipped, we feel a real, healthy hatred of ourselves, and our faults are brought to light in a clear light. The result is patience. If we are first tempted, we chafe and fret; if it comes back stronger, we whimper and whine; if we are tempted again, we try to fight the devil with our fist, we bluster with our will-power against being so assaulted; We break down and weep like a child whose Sunday clothes have been soiled by a bad boy; then we wonder what we are going to do; then we half despair of getting complete victory; at last, we tremble long sufferingly in the hand of God, and patiently gaze at Jesus as a child looks at its mother while getting treated for an injury. If not for the temptations, the soul would skip along, gloating over its own pretty piety, full of self-admiration. The same way that a severe case of smallpox prevents a pretty face from standing before a mirror, so terrible temptations prevent holy souls from adoring themselves.