Lent is not about good advice to help us do better, but good news that Jesus succeeds where we fail. Jesus was tested as we are—40 days in the wilderness echoing Israel’s 40 years—yet he triumphed. Temptation reveals what is truly in us. We cannot excuse our sin as mere humanity, for Jesus shared our humanity without surrendering to sin. The hope of Lent is this: our salvation rests not on the strength of our resolve, but on the sufficiency of our Redeemer.