So I was thinking about something @Lambano said the other day about…Jesus absolutely having to be tempted just as we are and the struggle we have trying to understand it that He could be tempted if He was God.
So what was His temptation? Satan didn’t say, if You are the son of man, turn this stone to bread. He said, if you are the Son of God…
Elsewhere we read of demons crying out, we know who You are, you’re the Son of God. And He told them to be silent. And He also, in other places, told people to be silent about who He was.
I’m struggling to get this out…the temptation was to do something AS God rather than AS a son of man. As the son of man, He was very hungry and had to trust and rely on Gods Spirit and humble Himself. As the son of God, He could have made some bread.
He was talking with someone He Himself had created. How odd to think of that. Someone He had created was trying to tempt Him…
Maybe I didn’t explain that well enough…
And this thought is odd too then-
WE have to struggle against the temptation to do things as a son of man and to only do things as Sons of God…
So…I mean, do you see it…?