Why should we ask that we may be kept from evil? For the great and wonderful reason that our fellowship with God may never be broken. If a man merely wants to be holy as such, there is something wrong with him. Our supreme desire should be to have a right relationship with God, to know Him, to have uninterrupted fellowship and communion with Him. That is why we pray this prayer that nothing may come between us and the brightness and the radiance and the glory of our Father which is in heaven. ‘Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.’ Martin Lloyd Jones