Prayer: Dear God, we go everywhere, wait in trust and do everything as your children. Amen
Reading: Matthew 4: 1-11 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: A week or so ago, a devotion by the same title as above was posted. The Bible story was about Moses on the mountain with God. The LORD told Moses to go up on the mountain, wait there for 40 days and nights for the tablets of stone with the law and the commandment and take them back to the people so they may do what what was written for their instruction. Go! Wait! Do! The reflection was about where we go to find God, how do we wait and then what do we do. Today's lesson is similar but different. Jesus was led, not to a mountaintop experience, but into the wilderness. His wait was also 40 days and nights but it also included fasting at the end of which he was famished. Then it was not the LORD who came to give him instructions but rather the tempter who came and challenged Jesus to do things drawing on his identity and trust in God. Go! Wait! Do! Jesus went, waited and did what was right as a child of God. Sometimes we go into challenging situations. Sometimes the wait is uncomfortable. Sometimes the instruction given is not really the right thing to do. Think about how Jesus responded to temptations and remember you too are a child of God. Go, wait and do with God. -- Ruth Gates
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