Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Temptation, no big leap

Mt.4:2 After fasting forty days Jesus was hungry. It was normal to be hungry, super hungry, starving to death kind of hunger after that long. Temptation isnot usually a big step from where we are. We talk about "leaps of faith". Temptation isn't usually a huge leap. The enemy hits us where we live. In v.3 satan suggests Jesus use his God-power to satisfy the flesh. He encouraged Jesus to take a "short-cut" (which is what sin often is ...a short-cut from doing something God's way). Considering Jesus was extremely hungry, no one else was around, who would it hurt, what would it matter; who could or would blame him?---Sound familiar? Problem: to Jesus this would have been sin; and he had to stay pure to be the just sacrifice for the sin of the world. Only he would be worthy to die for all!