one of my fav bloggers lizzie everard has a post with great insights on the choices jesus made while in the desert - in her post Jesus Face Down in the Dust she points out that jesus
chose not to agree with those things and instead took the low place. He shuffled around in the wilderness with his face in the dust, putting aside food, riches and temptations of power. He chose not to wield power. He was truly sold out for another way.
this is not how I was taught, how i react at an instintual level. i suceed if i can "make things happen", when I can wield power, marshall resources. as a male in a western culture, this posture is as un-natural as any yoga pose or estern adjustment. honestly, people shuffling around in the wilderness scare the hell out of me.
lizze goes on to ask about our own "bad hang ups on status, power, consumerism and self-interest". she pushes it even further:
How many of the choices we make purely in our own interest mean someone else has to suffer or slog for them to be realised?
taking the low place is what lizzie calls this. there is a great sneaker pimps song that has this chorus:
Just to find yourself
I hope you find yourself
In a low place like home
Low place like home
what a challenging idea - to realize this low place is our home, where our graeter good resides. rather than stretch for higher ground, the tempted G-d in flesh beckons me in the desert to lay low, to come home.
The real lesson about the temptation of jesus is know the word of God .the devil used scripture,but the trick was he omitted some key words or in other temptations he added to the word of God.For ex. Many chistians believe the bible says money is the root of all evil,but it says the love of money is the root of all evil.That totally changes Gods meaning. God wants us to be blessed
Posted by: oswald snider carlton 4 | Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 08:35 AM
The real lesson about the temptation of jesus is know the word of God .the devil used scripture,but the trick was he omitted some key words or in other temptations he added to the word of God.For ex. Many chistians believe the bible says money is the root of all evil,but it says the love of money is the root of all evil.That totally changes Gods meaning. God wants us to be blessed
Posted by: oswald snider carlton 4 | Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 08:32 AM
Jesus was tempted several times but still he have kept his integrity to his father until his last breath. No man has lived the way Jesus did. .
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