Evening: Psalms 81, 82; Luke 4:1-13
The story of Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness shows his true humanity and ours. The ‘devil’ in the story is the inner voice of Jesus’s own experience tempting him to take short-cuts to power. It’s the voice that, in every human life, tempts you to sell yourself short, to betray your true self. If you’re human, you know this voice. Jesus does not argue with this voice; he rebukes it. He uses the wisdom of scripture to stay him true to himself. Jesus’s experience demonstrates how important it is for you to rely on a wisdom greater than your own.
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