Lately I’ve been thinking about the temptations of Jesus in the wilderness. He fasted for 40 days and was hungry. During this time in the wilderness the devil tempted him three times. The first temptation had to do with Jesus’s hunger. The second temptation, as I understand it, was connected with the human need for validation in the eyes of other people. But the third temptation was something else altogether. Matthew chapter 4, verses 8 and 9 imply that the … Read the rest