Temptation

Mark 1:

12 The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.

13 And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.

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I just noticed that in the Temptation of Jesus, He was: 

1. all alone in the wilderness

2. tempted by Satan

3. with wild animals

4. ministered by angels.

The big eye-opener tonight for me is the fact that Jesus not only has to grapple with temptations from Satan, hunger and thirst, loneliness, He actually had to face WILD AMIMALS! Real. Physical. Danger!! 

Oh my goodness. As if physical weakness, great emotional and mental struggles weren't enough, WILD ANIMALS were thrown in to give ALL-ROUND STRESS for the FULL WORKS!! I don't think we're talking about wild bunnies or wild squirrels here. Probably real potential predators. BIG, scary animals that could KILL. 

I'm already scaredy-cat if I had to handle wild snails or wild squirrels. I can't imagine 40 days of all the above.

Faint. 

Thankfully, angels ministered to Him. Was Jesus comforted by their presence? I mean, they were with Him before He came to earth as a baby, weren't they? Perhaps they helped to remind Him of His mission too? I donno. Just wondering out loud here. 

The 40 days in the wilderness was no joke. Hats off to Jesus.