Reading up just now at the Daily Mail, I discovered this article on Pope Francis's concern over "...and lead us not into temptation":
Pope Francis wants to change words to the Lord's Prayer | Daily Mail Online
Several years ago this phrase, which I had repeated thousands and thousands of times, began to bug me, so I asked a philosopher/theologian friend of mine about it. He told me that what the phrase means is "subject us not to the trial." This made much more sense to me, so that is the phrase I've used ever since.
Has anybody else also wondered about "and lead us not into temptation"?
A cross reference scripture for this verse is 1 Corinthians 10:13..."No temptation has come upon you except what is common to men. But God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, but along with the temptation he will also make the way out so that you may be able to endure it."
I think that is basically what we are praying for with Jesus' prayer...keeping in mind who is responsible for all temptations...Satan...1 John 5:19..."We know that we originate with God, but the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one."
Also remembering that we are imperfect flesh...Matthew 26:41...Keep on the watch and pray continually, so that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit, of course, is eager, but the flesh is weak.”