Matthew 4:1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the
wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
Lent is when, for
Christians, the rubber meets the road, where we offer ourselves to be tested as
our Lord was tested. We are virtuous, but none are perfect. We are not taken
into temptation by force. The Holy Spirit offers these weeks as a fire by which
our faith may be hardened by resisting the temptations of this world, which are
as many and varied as the circles of Hell. Fix your faith on the power of Grace
and eschew, today, the lures of appetite, lust, sloth, and uncaring. 
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