The first temptation of Our Blessed Lord was to become a kind of social reformer, and to give bread to the multitudes in the wilderness who could find nothing there but stones. The vision of social amelioration without spiritual regeneration has constituted a temptation to which many important men in history have succumbed completely. But to Him, this would not be adequate service of the Father; there are deeper needs in man than crushed wheat; and there are greater joys than the full stomach.
Deeper needs but also greater joys. Once the spiritual life's need is beggined to be attended, the person experiences a level of pleasure, peace and joy incomparable to the rest of the wordly or mubdane pleasures
