Worthiness | Temptation of Jesus

Summary

Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve. ‘” (V.10)

Why does God allow temptation? How much easier it would be not to sin if there were no temptation to do it! While God never gives us a clear answer to that question, we can see how temptation is used for His glory in the temptation of Jesus. As Satan approaches, Jesus is hungry, tired, and weak. He is at His most vulnerable. Satan stalks his target perfectly, waiting for the moment that he might be victorious. In Jesus, he faces a foe much greater than any he had ever encountered before. Even at His weakest, Jesus was still willing to stand up to the prodding of the evil one. Satan’s temptations are designed for one purpose: to pull you away from God and to get you to trust in something else. In the case of Jesus’ temptation, it was to convince Jesus that He did not need the Trinity to be God. Unlike Adam, the father of mankind, who downplayed the importance of his relationship with God, Jesus trusted God. In this, He showed His worthiness to be King. Temptation shows us our weakness and need for a savior;
Jesus’ response to temptation shows that He is the savior.

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