Given that you and I are reasonably good people, it probably does not amaze you to read that Jesus was able to overcome temptation. After all, like me, you've probably been able to do it yourself, many times. Admittedly, we have also caved in to temptation innumerable times, but for a person with Jesus' devotion and strength, eluding the tempter's entrapment must have been a piece of cake.

That assumption is based on that belief that temptation is merely the urge to do something wrong. It is the desire to do something which will benefit one's self but which, if done, would violate the laws of God or society.

For instance, you walk through a store and you see something you would like to own, but you don't have the cash, so into your mind pops the thought of stealing it. Or, you have been give…