Completely Tempted

# 228 Today’s Living Word comes from Mark 1:13 “And He was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan, ”

When I see the number forty in Scripture I generally think of a length of time needed to accomplish what needs to be accomplished. It rained forty days and nights to accomplish the complete flooding of the world. The Israelites wandered in the wilderness for forty years to accomplish God’s complete cleansing of those without faith.

So the forty days of temptation in the wilderness was the length of time God used to allow Satan to tempt Jesus completely. Guess what? Jesus completely passed the test.

The Bible says in Hebrews 4:15, “For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.”

Although only three specific temptations are mentioned in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, we can be sure that every other temptation known to man was thrown at our Lord in those forty days. We aren’t given the details, but every type of sin ever committed by man was placed before Jesus as a temptation, but Jesus remained steadfast and was without sin.

Knowing this truth, where will you turn the next time you are tempted?

I’m Duane Matz and that’s today’s Living Word.