Does not the Christ who saves, and He alone, draw us up from our lame, downtrodden state as surely as He did this crippled man?

O how we dread our low condition, and the consequences of such, all the while failing to look outside of ourselves, our peers, this fleshly world–and to cry out for Him who alone can make us whole!

During times of temptation and suffering it’s helpful to remember the responses of Christ to the devil in Luke 4:

1) Man shall not live on bread alone

2) You shall worship the Lord your God and serve Him only

3) You shall not put the Lord your God to the test