Being led into the wilderness was Jesus ‘s crucible. A crucible is a hard test to prove what you believe. If you don’t know, it isn’t the only crucible Jesus that goes through. You never heard the expression going around the mountain again. It means that you haven’t learned the lesson the Holy Ghost was trying to teach you the first time. There are easy test and hard ones. But you don’t get to choose the test. God is the only one who does. When Jesus went into the wilderness, he had everything that we have, with the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues. Jesus came out on the other side of this crucible ready to start His ministry. But you would say Jesus is God. But He was as much a man as you and I. He had every gift that God gives to man. And He use these gifts to do the will of our Father. That is why Jesus is our example of how to live on this Earth. Jesus was tempted in the wilderness by the devil. And this was his reply, Matthew 4:4 ” It is written man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” (KJV).

Crain Blanchard.

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