"Does Jesus care when my heart is too experienced and I can not cheer or sing when they weigh the burdens, weaken my care and the way it is increasingly hard and long?" These are the words of Frank E. Graeff after hours of terrible depression and despondency. To answer your question as well, need to consult the word of God.
HUMAN NATURE OF JESUS Philippians 2:6-7 tells us that even though Jesus was equal with God, He emptied Himself. Just as man has five senses and may decide to delete all, Jesus chose to give up all rights and privileges of his divinity to become man. So he was alone in the desert with Satan as a man, like you and I were on it daily.
THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS The exact time of temptation is important. It was immediately after his baptism and anointing by the Holy Spirit, who descended from heaven. As usual, the temptation comes after some of our greatest victories and most exciting experiences. His ministry was about to begin, but could not develop without some fundamental aspects were tested.
The first temptation: "If you are the Son of God" (Matthew 4:3). Satan wanted to doubt the Lord our Father He wanted Jesus to doubt the words he had just heard on the river: "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." "If you are the Son of God, should not go this fast, why not just use his miraculous powers to turn these stones into bread?" are the words of the tempter. If you ever wondered, "Lord, why me?" or think, "Actually he does not want me to suffer so when there is an easy way out", then you should know that he was tempted like us in all things.
The second temptation: Matthew 4:6. He is starving in the desert, and tempting to press him further. While the first temptation was a gentle whisper S "If you are the Son of God" s this Monday, the intensity of the devil's voice reaches a level fervent: "Doubt, doubt, doubt when he says again: If you are the Son of god, throw yourself down. " If for a moment the Lord had ceased to trust in the love and commitment of the Father to him, he could have worked a miracle, angels would have taken him and he would have reaffirmed their relationship with the Father, for himself and for all others. After all, he actually heard God say, "This is my beloved Son"? In John 12:28-29, when God spoke, some thought it was thunder. Thus the operation of the miracle show a doubt the commitment of the Father for it's large enough to destroy their faith in the Father
The third temptation: "All this I will give [the kingdoms of the world] up, down and worship me" (Matthew 4:9). If you doubt your relationship with the Father, you will need to provide his presence with you through a successful ministry. He came to save the citizens of the kingdoms of the world, but it had to happen so that the Father was glorified, not Satan. The success is no indicative of the presence of God. Jeremiah 50 and Ezekiel preached preached 20, without any conversion. Here, the tempting to want to use doubt sown in the first two temptations to get him to try another method than the one that glorifies the Father
In conclusion, the essence of temptation was the will of God were "exaggerated and unfair." Jesus was too good to suffer the horrors of the planet dry, dusty and barren. Satan repeated it again and again: "God has a better plan for your life than the suffering you are going through, and there is an easy way to escape." The lesson that the Lord wants us to learn from all this is simply this: No matter how dark the night, how lonely the soul, or how intense the suffering, "Trust me and do not doubt my love." When and if we get all this reflection is recorded in our mind, we can answer the question: "Jesus cares?" with the letter and the song that says, "Yes, he's worried about us. I know is, your heart is touched by my grief, when the days are discouraged by trainers and the nights are depressing, I know my Savior cares for me ".
Author: Rodney M. Miller
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