Matthew 4:1-11
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Jesus’s Temptation in the Wilderness isn’t just a story of the power of evil or Jesus’s personal experience of it, but the very corruptive nature of power.
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The temptation in the wilderness isn’t a mere trick or a promise of true power, but a false invitation to abandon the very love of God.
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A Poem of Temptation
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Wrestling with the Temptation of Jesus in the Wilderness, we can’t escape the story is about power and control.
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The story of Jesus’s temptation in the wilderness is an invitation to examine our own relationship with power.
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Jesus is led into the wilderness to be tempted. Tempted with power, understanding, everything he could desire. Everything we desire.