Faithfulness Even in Temptation
We begin our first week of lent by reflecting on the meaning of temptation in our lives. Our life should always of being faithful even when we are tempted. The Gospel of Luke which we are reading in this year speaks about the three temptations of our Lord Jesus Christ. It narrates how Jesus was tempted against material needs, human power, and against asking God for an extraordinary sign of protection (Cf. Luke 4: 1-13). Temptation is an inducement to sin. It is a trial in which one has a free choice of being faithful or unfaithful to God and His commands. Temptation is not a sin certainly. It is just a situation of choice: “between the Eternal Good (God) and temporal good (in- ordinate love of self). The first temptation Christ experienced was that of hunger or against material needs. We want to have good clothes, money especially in this time of poverty. These temporal needs are important to our lives but they are not an end in themselves “ Human beings live not on br