My computer screen indicts me, and I hate it.
Specifically, my Microsoft Outlook calendar hits me every day with my own failure. Knowing that I need to exercise every day, I added a daily, carved-out hour to do it. And I have hit “dismiss” repeatedly in recent weeks. Without the motivation to do it, I’ve fallen to the wayside. And it’s depressing.
Scripture speaks of testing as that which yields maturity and solidity, a testing more rigorous than physical activity. Why does the Book of Hebrews return so repeatedly to the temptations of Jesus? Why is it seen there as such a liberating truth that He was “tempted in every way we are, yet without sin?” Why does whatever happened in that Judean wilderness or in those Galilean marketplaces mean that I can now have the freedom to pray boldly, without reluctance or fear?
In the latest installment of the series, Blood Brother: The Word of Christ in the Gospel of Hebrews, I look at the question of a tempted Jesus, and ponder what it means for the rest of us, from Hebrews 4:14-5:10.
You can listen to the audio of this segment here, and to the rest of the series here.
In the meantime, pay no attention to that chime in the background. It just means I need to swim.
Tomorrow.
