Like the people of God throughout the ages, we trade worship for ease. We spend the sacred currency of our attention and adoration on the screens, pastors, and politicians who give us the fastest route to feeling blessed and great again. But where we succumb again and again to temptation, Christ was faithful to worship God alone. Jesus rejected Satan’s proposal to trade his sacred attention for a faster route to reigning over the world. With Christ, we must reject Satan’s temptation to circumvent waiting as part of worship, as the well where God will fill us and this world with the blessing of
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