Our Tiny Temptations

"[Jesus] tasted our temptations with a sensitivity none of us has known precisely because He resisted them. Whatever your experience of temptation or suffering, Christ's was deeper because His humanity was sinless." (p. 27-28, In Christ Alone)

This is a great reminder from Sinclair Ferguson. Jesus temptations were so great not because He gave in, but precisely because he resisted. It is amazing how we self-deceive ourselves into thinking that because our temptations are so strong we give in to sin, yet the strongest temptations are the one's not given into. Our temptations are tiny in comparison to the temptation that the perfect Son of God faced.

May we follow Jesus' in resisting great temptation--not giving into tiny temptations. And when we sin, may we trust Him as a faithful High Priest who never sinned and died in our place for our sins.

"Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted." Hebrews 2:17-18