Today, second Sunday in Lent, our thoughts were centred on "The Temptations of Jesus."
Right at the beginning of His ministry, immediately after Jesus' baptism, He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. Jesus needed this solitude to strengthen His soul for His mission and ministry. During his quiet time He was confronted with three major temptations.
He was sorely tempted to choose between doing the Father's will to be the Saviour of the world, or to take the easy route and lose the opportunity to save the people of the world from sin.
Satan did his best to sidetrack Jesus from His primary goal of becoming the Bread of Life in satisfying the spiritual hunger of the world. Because He remained true to the Father and resisted the temptation of the devil we celebrate His broken body sacrificed for the world's sin and our personal salvation.
Today our thoughts centred on the theme that Jesus is the Bread of Life.
Let us strengthen our soul through God's word. And when Satan attacks us let us use the 'sword of the Spirit' which is the word of God to fight back. We are assured of victory in Jesus.
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