Genesis 7 & 8, Matthew 4: 1-22, Psalm 4
Matthew 4: 1-3 (ESV)
“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to
be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was
hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God,
command these stones to become loaves of bread.”
In verses 1-3 from Matthew 4, a tempter came to Jesus after
his 40-day fast and asked him to use his gifts to appease his hunger. Bible
commentator Charles Spurgeon noted that temptations will always come to us
until we die. Jesus had done a fast with encouragement from the Holy Spirit, so
he was following his father-God’s plan for his life which was to be tempted.
But the tempter still came to him. If Jesus was tempted, then we must expect
that we will also be tempted even when we are in our most devout frame mind. I
think it is mistake that just because we consider ourselves a person of faith
with a devout relationship with God, that we would never be tempted. I think devout
people of faith should probably expect to be experience more temptation,
because Satan will try anything to shake their faith in God. I can imagine a
tempter saying to me, “if you are so devoted to God, why did this bad thing
happen to you? God has abandoned you. Use your own brain to get out of this
situation.” We must always be vigilant and rely on God to help us when the
tempter comes into our life.
No comments:
Post a Comment