Wild Animals
Mark 1:9-20

Remote. Desolate. Dangerous. For forty days, wild animals roamed about Jesus while angels served him. And Satan tempted him.

Moses led the children of Abraham through the waters of the Red Sea, delivered God’s law to them, and guided them to the Promised Land. There, they promptly disbelieved God’s Word and spent the next forty years wandering in desolate places. A generation would die in the wilderness because of doubt.

Tempted, Jesus didn’t doubt. He trusted the Word of his Father and fully obeyed his Father’s will. Satan and wild animals couldn’t shake him. That’s good news for all us who have been shaken by doubt. Jesus stared down the Devil and the wolves for us.