"We expect Jesus to have endured temptation as we endure temptation--and he did. But much of what we include in "temptation" isn't temptation at all. It's beyond our good, created desires being appealed to. It's instead those embryonic stages of sinful desire. Jesus' desert testing was indeed forty days of torture, but his torture was not because he, like we, longed to do the forbidden. It is because embedded with those good, natural human desires, he longed for what was good in each of the things he was (temporarily) denied." -Russell Moore, Tempted and Tried
Seriously, though, buy this book or let me buy it for you. It's been a personally convicting and challenging page-turner thus far. The chapter "Starved to Death: Why We'd Rather Be Fed Than Fathered" hit me on so many levels. Buy it or let me buy it for you, seriously: Tempted and Tried: Temptation and the Triumph of Christ
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