Daily Temptations

So this Wednesday I followed up on Matthew 4 with the teens.  We have been going through this on Sunday's with the main service and Sunday School.  This chapter focuses on Jesus' temptation by the evil one.  What an interesting story for me to study.  First I see a God who has become human and is feeling things like a human.  He is then taken by the spirit to feel even more like a human.  Suffering like we do, Jesus goes beyond by not eating for forty days.  That in itself is amazing.  He must have suffered greatly to endure that time alone.  While I have fasted for a time, I have never gone that long.  I feel I would be greatly benefited from that experience in more than one way. ( I am over a hundred pounds overweight)  I don't think I could do it alone.  Jesus was alone in the desert spending undistracted time with God.  Our lives today are so distraction full, that I feel we find ourselves only needing God when things go bad.  We only need God when our distractions forsake us and we are dangling by a thread.  God led Jesus out to that desert to have time with Him and to ensure He understood our suffering as humans.  Hunger abounds in this world and here in the US we have plenty.  While I don't think it is the responsibility of our government to redistribute our wealth, it is the obligation of those claiming to be Christian to do something about it.  I am guilty of ignoring life around me and focusing on things of distraction.  I haven't posted on this form for over two years.  That is because I have been distracted.  Life is distracting are we willing to let the evil one have his way, or are we going to do what Jesus did and rebuke him and focus on our Father in Heaven?