Evening: Psalms 110:1-5, 116, 117; Luke 4:1-13
Jesus’s temptations are ours, too: 1. Serving things instead of serving others; 2. Choosing physical satisfaction over inner fulfilment; 3. Wanting or trying to be like God, all-powerful, having everything. The rite of Baptism calls these temptations: “the world, the flesh, and the devil.” I suppose they embody the wilderness struggle each of us must undergo, with its central question: For what will I live ... and for whom? Will it be for others, the world and God, or only for myself? It is vaguely reassuring to hear that Jesus had to figure out the answers to these questions, too.
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