Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusts in thee. 4 Trust in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.
This is what David failed to do in this instance when he fell a lusting, and this is also what we often fail to do, for when we compare situation to situation, we discover that both David and Christ were suffering under extreme clamors of the flesh, in David’s case the clamor was bad, in Christ’s case the clamor was a good one, because there’s nothing wrong with being hungry.
It really does not matter whether the clamor may be good or bad; what matters is how we respond to the temptation. If folks neglect prayer, and the study of the word of God, they will become sitting ducks for tailormade temptations, for the clamors and latent tendencies, indigenous to human nature, will drive us over the edge.
We have no clue when tailormade temptations will come our way, but what we can, and should do is to be fully prepared as Christ did for the timing and the intensity of the temptation becomes irrelevant if we are girded with the panoply of heaven always. Knowing a whole lot of Scripture is good, but in and of itself it cannot stave off tailormade temptation.
Mark 14:38 Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak. 39 And again he went away, and prayed, and spoke the same words.
May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!