Dear brothers and sisters,
We started the holy period of Lent with Ash Wednesday.
This is a time of grace granted to us all to delve into the mystery ofGod’s love for us, which is manifested in the sacrifice and in the unconditional gift of Jesus, the Son of God, and to each of us.
As we got closer to the ceremony of the cremation, we have heard a wonderful invitation from the officers of the Church:
Repent and believe the Gospel!
It is an invitation to a new life, a happy and blessed.
If until now your gaze was directed towards the things that you have trapped, sad, made you unhappy and frustrated, and now directs your eyes to the Gospel, the Good News which alone can illuminate your path to success, and achievement.
We have already begun that journey…
our daily life is full of moments of joy and success, but also of moments of temptation, failure, and suffering.
A wise person accepts responsibility for the challenges that it encounters in the situations of life and, with his creativity and wisdom, the plasma, for the good and blessing to all those with whom he lives and works.
The message of the gospel of the first Sunday of Lent offers us a unique light at the beginning of this time of grace that the Lord gives us as a journey and preparation for the biggest celebration of our faith, which is Easter.
At the end of this time, we are all called to celebrate our Passover staff, our victory in Christ Jesus, who has destroyed for ever the power of death, and there he played his glorious resurrection. Jesus is the firstborn among many brethren, that, in the light of the Gospel, is the model for all of us and a source of strength in every trial and temptation.
We know what happened to Jesus at the Jordan river when, with deep humility, he accepted the baptism by John. The Holy Spirit descended upon him and the heavens opened.
At that moment, he heard the voice of the Father:
‘this is my beloved Son, in whom I have placed all my delight and all my love’.
In that moment, God the Father set his seal on him and gave him the power to carry out a mission only!
This seal of the Father, he opened up to Jesus on the world stage, in which he enters as a beloved child of the Father. Rising from the waters of the Jordan, what is the first thing Jesus?
He went to preach, to heal, to free, or show people the unique glory of the Father, which had been sealed.
Jesus did not go to prove to people that he was the Son of God, and that this had greater prestige, honor, and a special mission to accomplish.
No, but He, full of the Holy Spirit and led by Him through, go into the desert.
Strange, isn’t it?
We might ask: how is it possible that the Holy Spirit leads him into the wilderness?
The Holy Spirit did not, perhaps, ideas, and creativity the most beautiful and the best of these?
However, the Holy Spirit leads Jesus to be tempted by the devil in the desert!
As ever, the Holy Spirit leads him into the wilderness, where therewas
no one and nothing if not his enemy?
Why not, brought him to Jerusalem, at the centre of events and of public life?
The Holy Spirit leads us into the heart of the desert so that Jesus can clearly demonstrate the power of God which was with, without any addition or help from others or theuse of any thing.
Jesus trust fully in the help of the Spirit of the Father.
Jesus ate nothing for forty days and, in the end, when he was hungry, his opponent came up to him, offering solutions to your needs.
Who are you listening to?
Who are your counselors, dear brothers and sisters?
Who is your confidence?
It is interesting to note that Satan came to Jesus after 15, 20 or 35 days, but when Jesus was hungry. It is very important for all of us to discern the spirits and the spiritual states.
Satan is always tempt us when we are weak.
He ‘sniff’ ‘s always the right time and situation in which we are fragile and weak, in order to manifest his power.
Here’s how strong it is!
When Jesus is hungry, his enemy comes to meet him, and he faces it with courage and decision.
Jesus is not afraid to confront face-to-face with her and our opponent.
Those moments were terrifying for Jesus, day and night!
But where she found Jesus the strength to all the intrigues and cunning of the proposals of his enemy?
Jesus did not rely on himself, his knowledge, his strength and skill, his intelligence, his capacity and his or her unique bond with the Father.
Jesus has not used any of this!
Simply responds to Satan three times with the words: ‘it Is written’.
Jesus manifested the power of the Holy Spirit in the revealed Word.
This word is the manifestation of thelove of the Father donated tothe man as a protection and strength.
The word of God is the sword with which Satan is defeated.
We human beings do not possess weapons powerful enough to defeat Satan.
We have received the power of God and the power of the Holy Spirit in the written Word and revealed.
It is very interesting to note that the dynamic and the manifestation of the two wills. In this event, there are clearly two different projects.
While the Holy Spirit leads Jesus into the wilderness, Satan wants to lead him on, showing him all the kingdoms of the world, challenging situations as ‘extraordinary’, offering him his food, and the glory of Jerusalem.
But Jesus asks in front of the Word of God and, with the light and the power of the Word, defeats him in such a way that Satan must abandon it and retreat in the desert.
Jesus defeats him in the desert, despite being hungry and without food.
about the people and things that surround it.
Jesus fought and defeated his enemy face-to-face, by adhering clearly what was written, as his Father had said, and left it in the Holy Book: lApocalypse.
When Satan abandons Jesus?
When he had exhausted all his temptations.
Satan was to be just, without justification, that is, without any force.
Luse Jesus made of the word of God exhausted all his power of action, and manipulation.
Satan is the father of lies, woe tothe man who is in his school!
Dear brothers and sisters, in this time of Lent, we find time and space to hear and receive the Word of God.
Only the word of God provides real food for our hearts and our minds so that we can withstand all the attacks of the devil and of wicked persons.
Satan is always protected, and has always used the lie!
Therefore, we are attentive to all of its offerings based on fraud, deception and falsehood.
Dear sister, dear brother, put aside your concerns, your obligations, and take the Sacred Scriptures: the Bible.
Picked up in the solitude of your room and give the Lordthe opportunity to purchase the mantle of the Holy Spirit to protect you, and your enlightenment.
In this way, you’ll have areal weapon and invincible for all of your daily battles.
And defeat all your enemies and your deceptions!
Open yourself to the wisdom of God so that you can expose all the false offers of the Evil one, all of his manipulations.
He wants to steal the time, the strength, the true friends. Jesus wants to enter in all of your deserts.
Be not afraid and do not be ashamed to let it enter in your desert.
Let Jesus come into the wilderness of your family, of your married life, of your work activities, and into the wilderness of your friends.
There will defeat the Evil one, and from your desert to make your resurrection, your victory, anoasis of fertile!
Jesus wants to defeat all of our enemies and attacks with us.
We walk with Him the light of his word and experience the great joy of the victory in our lives.
