Lead me not into temptation

Doesn't it make you mad when you think you have to do something slightly immoral to obtain some desirable end, and then it turns out, five minutes after the dirty deed, that you would not have had to do it after all --- and could have kept a clean conscience to boot --- if you had only waited and trusted?

Don't you think Isaac's wife Rebekah felt that way after the deceit she perpetrate to secure the birthright for her favorite son? Jacob was a shoo-in for the blessing anyway, and look at the mess his mom caused by her underhandedness, now having to rush her darling off the plantation for protection, never to lay eyes on him again.

Don't you feel bad for King Saul, so touching close to glory, but forfeiting the whole thing because he wouldn't trust just a little longer in God's word that Samuel would show up on time? His logic in 1 Samuel 13:11,12 is so persuasive and heart-rending, you know you could have made the same fatal choice.

Or Nikabrik in Prince Caspian. Don't you wish he had just trusted in the solution on the side of the angels --- as Caspian, Doctor Cornelius, and Trufflehunter did --- rather than enlisting the Hag and Wer-Wolf to win the battle?

Wouldn't you be mad at yourself if you'd been in the chorus shouting that we absolutely positively need to destroy human embryos in order to help people with Parkinson's disease? I wonder if you would have trusted just a little bit longer in that childlike gut certainty of the sanctity of human life if you had known that on November 20th researchers would announce a breakthrough: human stem cells can now be made from skin cells.