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After Jesus was baptized, in the wilderness where the
Spirit led him to, he has to face temptations of the Devil. The first
temptation is for Jesus to transform into a non-human, that he may become God.
If one takes away his humanity and changed it to being God, he sins for only
the Lord Almighty is God.

 

Likewise though the nature of Jesus is discreet, with the
oneness of God maintained in the Old Testament, Jesus sharing the same spirit
Holy Ghost with the Father makes him and the Father one in substance and
spirit, as Adam and Eve shares the same spirit before they ate the fruit from
the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Thus Jesus in oneness with the Father
though in one accord, does not divide them even if they can be distinguished
apart, and the same applies with the Holy Spirit, making them having individual
nature, a threefold-natured God having three assertions but do share in one
Divinity or Deity.

 

If you are hungry, your tendency is to eat, just like any
other living being. But in the turn of events, if Jesus had turned the stone to
bread to feed his hungry belly, he will thus destroy his being human by
becoming a non-human. This would also make him proud before the Devil in the event
that he uses his (Jesus’) power just to satisfy his hunger. If we may recall,
Adam and Eve sins in this way because had Jesus yielded to the Devil’s wishes,
he in the event would do it for pride which is far from his character
especially on his nature being God. Others can’t comprehend Jesus having two
natures, 100% human and 100% Divine. Likewise Jesus does not only share one
spirit with the Father (Malachi 2:15 - “Did he not make one being with flesh
and spirit: and what does that one require but godly offspring?”), but the
Father is pleased much with him that he allows that in him all fullness of the
Godhead should dwell even bodily for he is the expressed image of the Father
having the Father’s spirit (Isaiah 11:2) possessing him with Jesus being God in
appearance since the beginning.

 

Conversion also means a going back to your humanity that
is to be holy and perfect human being created in the image and likeness of God.
The sin of rape robs you out of your humanity by being selfish, greedy, violent
and has a mind that destroys another person forgetting that we are created for
one another, thus making one dehumanized, losing respect to others, especially
respect to himself and having without dignity. Because of sin, people are
sometimes losing their stateliness and are dehumanized, maybe because they were
molested in the time of their childhood, and don’t care of themselves anymore,
thus they to be reshaped need to be whole, as someone should give counsel to
mend their souls as to recreate their respect to their selves.

 

According to St. Ireneaus, “the Glory of God is man fully
human and fully alive.” This is being hindered by the sin of commission and the
sins of omission. We need to be free of spiritual and material bondage. We need
to cleanse our soul and whole being, which had been a haven of devils taking
office in our body with all their evils. By renouncing all evil, we reject all
sorts of devils and their evil. By rejecting their (the devils’) temptation and
praying that the Holy Spirit will empower us, the church in this earth will be
cleanse and not only our own bodies and souls. We should be thankful that we
have intelligent priests sharing us this wisdom, which we impart also to
others, to mention amongst is Fr. Joey.

 

“We should rejoice over the victor of Christ against the
Devil’s temptation,” said one of my favorite priests, Fr. Jesse Guillergan
Jr. in his talk in the Charismatic
prayer meeting. To him, if we put to reality the life we live, we face so many
temptations like money, power, fame which instead of bringing something good to
man, to others it became the basis that can lead them to sin. With wit and
holiness, he quoted, “What profit should a man will obtain if he gains the
whole world but lose in the process his own soul not thinking of God anymore
with him being self-sufficient.”

 

The God who suffices us with bread somehow is the one who
leads us away from sin in the event of temptation, that to our understanding
when we are in such an ordeal we remember that perhaps we are invited to fast
and to pray. St. Leo the Great carefully articulates that what is being
emphasized during the Holy Week is not the abstinence from food but the
exercising of our will if we may do so with courage in order for us to fight
temptation. To him, we should work out penance and conquer temptation, where we
are invited to reject sin and reconcile ourselves back to God.

 

To avoid temptation, it is our duty to do penance just to
cling to God and approach to decorum where we have to study the word of God. In
one of the ideas shared by Fr. Jesse to us after him reading the Bible,
according to him, “Man is created by receiving God’s breath into his (man’s)
nostrils.” Likewise Adam and Eve after enjoying paradise were tempted, that
according to the Devil’s enticement, if they will eat of the fruit from the
tree of knowledge of good and evil, they would be like God knowing what is good
and what is evil. Because they succumbing to the Devil’s temptation, they
spoiled their human nature making it wounded human nature, thus a need arise to
reconcile with God and a need to have a mediator which Christ’s role later
enters.

 

We should regain our nature as human by admitting our sins
and confessing these to the priests that we may obtain health, after that that
we may have cleanse our souls through the sacrament of penance and heal it of
our wounds by receiving the Holy Communion. If we are stressed because of
problems coming our way we need to refresh our minds through renunciation of
our sins in order to prepare for the infilling or dwelling in of the Holy
Spirit.

 

 

- Jyotisman Nearu Upendra 

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