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Rootfroot
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Thursday, 26. February 2009, 10:16
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Strange that even Jesus himself seems to have struggled with his vocation. The account of Jesus 40 days in the wilderness in Matthew 4 is much less bald than Marks account that we read here. Jesus appears to have been tempted by a variety of illusory 'vocations' that were in fact not the call of God. In the same way, a sense of vocation can sometimes be a dangerous temptation for us - a sense of call to something glamourous and high profile, gratifying to our self-image, or comfortable and rewarding. What weapons does Jesus deploy to expose the illusions? Fasting and the Word of God. If it's good enough for him ...
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