apology

I did try to work out how to write on this weeks passage. However, in the end I decided not to do so, as the format I use here did not fit the passage.

My usual format sees one of the characters reflecting on their meeting with Jesus soon after, if not the ‘morning after’, the encounter.    Here no-one else was involved.  This was a private moment for Jesus, set in lonely and desolate place, even before the first disciples were called. 

Indeed, the only other character mentioned here is the devil, and I really don’t want to give him any time or space. No doubt he’d love the attention, but this is not about him, it’s about Jesus and his personal heart searching. 

Jesus needs to decided who he will be; what kind of a Saviour?  More precisely, he needs to rule out what kind of a saviour he will not be.