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He Knows How to Help Us When We are Tempted,
January 18
For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to
succour them that are tempted.
Hebrews 2:18
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Though enduring most terrible temptations, Christ did not fail or be-
come discouraged. He was fighting the battle in our behalf, and had He
faltered, had He yielded to temptation, the human family would have been
lost.
The Bible gives but a bare mention of the conflict with Satan in the
wilderness of temptation, but it was a terrible ordeal. Christ came off
conqueror, bearing the test and trial in our behalf. How little is man able
to comprehend the strength of the temptation of Christ! How little does he
understand of that ordeal upon which hung the destiny of a lost world! The
world’s Redeemer was not warring against flesh and blood, but against
principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places. All heaven was interested in
this conflict, and what joy, what rejoicing there was in heaven because
help had been laid upon One who is mighty to overcome, mighty to save!
What an event was this when Christ placed Himself in the position of
Adam, and endured the test where Adam had failed, and by this act placed
man on a vantage ground, in favor with God, where he might overcome
on his own account through the merits of Jesus. In His name, through
His grace, man may be an overcomer, even as Christ was an overcomer.
In Christ divinity and humanity were united, and the only way in which
man may be an overcomer is through becoming a partaker of the divine
nature.... Divinity and humanity are blended in him who has the spirit of
Christ. The apostle Paul writes, “In all things it behooved him to be made
like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest.”
... “We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling
of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without
sin.
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The Youth’s Instructor, June 30, 1892
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