Moving towards Easter in the Desert

For the last weeks of Lent until Easter, we will provide daily reflections on the a desert journey.

Testing
“Some time later God tested Abraham.

“Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the Lord called out from heaven . . . “Do not lay a hand on the boy. . . Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.

“Abraham looked and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called that place ‘The Lord will provide’.”

Genesis 22:1, 10, 13-14.

“At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. As Jesus was coming out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

“And a voice came from heaven: ‘You are my son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.’ At once the Spirit sent him out into the desert, and he was in the desert forty days, being tempted by Satan.”

Mark 1:9-12