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Choosing Our Path in Life
Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! for it is written,
‘Worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”
Matthew 4:10
After Jesus’s third and final test in the desert, he sends the evil one away, declaring with a faithful certainty that he is choosing the path of life that walks with God. He unequivocally renounces a life dependent on materialism, want, and self-interest. His only desire is to serve humankind and live in the ways of God. It is a rejection of a way of life that would only serve the world and leave Jesus constantly wanting more. A rejection of the kind of life that is never quenched and filled with goals that can never be achieved. In Jesus’s final day in the wilderness, he declares these words as a repudiation of temptation for us to model.
By Dr. Bruce L. HartmanChoosing Our Path in Life
Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! for it is written,
‘Worship the Lord your God and serve only him.’”
Matthew 4:10
After Jesus’s third and final test in the desert, he sends the evil one away, declaring with a faithful certainty that he is choosing the path of life that walks with God. He unequivocally renounces a life dependent on materialism, want, and self-interest. His only desire is to serve humankind and live in the ways of God. It is a rejection of a way of life that would only serve the world and leave Jesus constantly wanting more. A rejection of the kind of life that is never quenched and filled with goals that can never be achieved. In Jesus’s final day in the wilderness, he declares these words as a repudiation of temptation for us to model.