<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4:10&nbsp;</span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">Then said Jesus to him: Away with you Satan! For it is written: You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- The record of the Lord&rsquo;s wilderness temptations is almost certainly a reflection of&nbsp;</span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">His</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;self-perception; He spoke to the &lsquo;devil&rsquo; / personification of sin which was within Him, He saw Himself as two people, and His spiritual man triumphed gloriously against the man of the flesh. Lk. 4:8 records how &ldquo;Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve&rdquo;. He understood that we can only serve two masters: God or the flesh (&ldquo;mammon&rdquo; is another personification of the flesh, similar to &lsquo;satan&rsquo;). He saw His own flesh, His own internal thoughts, as a master begging to be served which He must totally reject. His words are a quotation from Dt. 6:13, which warns Israel to serve Yahweh alone and not idols. He perceived His own natural mind and desire as an idol calling to be served. When the Lord explained what had happened in the wilderness to the disciples and thereby to the Gospel writers, He opened His heart to them. He gave us all a window on how He perceived Himself, as He sought to explain to men the internal struggles of the Son of God. Bringing it all back home, I must ask firstly how much we even&nbsp;</span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">struggle</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;with temptation? And as and when we do, would we not be helped by the Lord&rsquo;s example of talking to ourselves, and personalising Scripture as He did? &lsquo;You don&rsquo;t want to do&nbsp;</span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">that</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">! Give up your place in the Kingdom, for that... drug, that girl, that job? Of course not! Come on. There&nbsp;</span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">is</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;a way of escape; Paul told me God won&rsquo;t try me beyond my strength, He will make me a way of escape&rsquo;.&nbsp;</span></p>