Going Into the Wilderness With Jesus!

In the quiet, daily experience of life, in the decisions that commonly come every moment to everyone, there is a quiet trust in the wisdom of God to meet each decision. When we embrace such trust things begin to work out in unexpected ways, with unusual results that follow usual decisions.

The first is that temptation does not come to us because we are sinners. It comes to us because we are human beings. It is our humanity that makes us subject to the power of temptation. Secondly, the whole thrust of the temptation of the devil is to get Jesus to move off the principle of dependence and trust in the indwelling God. This is always the thrust of temptation with us as well. The devil attempts to get us to act on our own, independently of God. That is the nature of temptation.

In the quiet, daily experience of life, in the decisions that commonly come every moment to everyone, there is a quiet trust in the wisdom of God to meet each decision, and things begin to work out in unexpected ways, with unusual results that follow usual decisions. Extraordinary things follow ordinary activity, as God begins to work in human life. This is the secret of human life, as our Lord is demonstrating it, making it available to us as we by faith receive Jesus Christ, that his life may be lived again in us.

God has a special treat for you Sunday,