Temptations come in all forms and intensities. They often come when we are least prepared to fend them off. So, it is easy to excuse ourselves or to cry out, "I can't help myself!" It is perhaps even easier to blame others. A cute little comedian of the past had a line that one of his skit characters often repeated: "The devil made me do it!"
God's analysis of and solution to the temptations in the life of the Christian are given in I Corinthians 10:13 — There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Note in the first place that your temptations are no more severe than those that anyone else in the world faces: they are common to man. They may seem stronger because they are yours to face, but they are the normal experience.
Consider secondly that God is faithful, to you as well as all others being tempted. God has not forsaken you nor have your difficulties skipped His notice.
Third, God controls the severity of the temptation, for He will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able. Whoever the tempter, God is greater and more powerful.
Fourth, God will make a way to escape. You might have to want it and you might have to look for it, but it will be provided. Your old nature may not want to take it, but it is there. Finally, you can overcome the temptation, for His way to escape is so that ye may be able to bear it. His strength, His power, His enabling is the solution to the problem of temptation. To trust your own strength is to fail.
The above provisions are for the person who has trusted Christ as Savior and is a child of God by faith. For an unbeliever, no such help is available. He is at the mercy of his own sinful nature and its driving lusts. He is in the grips of the Devil and is unable to escape. But Christ is the Savior; He is able to save and deliver all who trust His redeeming work on the cross as the payment for sin. Then, and only then, is victory over temptations possible. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. . . (Acts 16:31).