By Alberto Valdivia Cier
Luke 4:1-13
be tempted is to be attracted to evil. We need to know how to operate the temptation and what are the weapons God has given us to win. The victory of Jesus in the wilderness of temptation, leaves us many lessons that we can be very useful whenever the devil tries to attack us.
We are tempted in our physical weaknesses
Our sinful nature causes us have physical weaknesses and passions, laziness, gluttony, etc.. We do not live only to feed our physical desires, but mainly to feed our souls with the Word of God. Be filled with the Word of God helps us to break the meat that lives in us
We are tempted to pride and greed
The devil gives us power, wealth and earthly glory but he looks with that is that our heart is surrendered to the world and so we turn away from God
We must decide only give our heart and worship God, not to seek earthly riches but spiritual ones
We
tempted to doubt God's promises
The devil, using a biblical text, Jesus asks vacuum is pulled to test whether what God promises is true. What the devil wants to sow doubts of God in everyone. We should not test God, we must believe in him, even at times when it seems that we do not respond or we all go wrong.
The Word of God, faith and prayer are Jesus used powerful weapons to overcome temptation. We must also use these weapons to defeat the wiles of the devil and be grounded in God.
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