Run!

Genesis 39 tells us the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife.  Elder Hartman Rector, Jr. in the January 1973 Ensign, said, "Joseph did the very best thing he could do under the circumstances.  The scripture records, "... he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and or him out."  Or, in today's language, he ran.  Maybe it doesn't sound like a very sophisticated thing to do... Yet Joseph ran, and because he did, he was temporarily placed in prison, where he was shut out from society, but if he had not run, he would have been shut out from God perhaps forever, because he would not have been in condition to receive the necessary communications that made him the great prophet that he was." (Live above the Law to Be Free)  In Matthew 4:10 Christ says, "Get thee hence, Satan."  If you were to change this around, and speak to your self, it might be something like, "Get thee hence from Satan."  By our own actions we can get Satan out of our vicinity, even if we have to move ourselves away, leaving Satan behind.  In Galatians 5:7, Paul makes the statement, "Ye did well to run", but then poses the question, "Who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?"  We are the only ones who can stop ourselves from running from Satan - running to Christ.