Temptation

Tired tonight. Ready to go to bed, so a short post instead of a more complicated one.

The Sunday school lesson I taught this morning was about the temptation of Jesus. The work temptation, in Greek, is peirasmos. It can mean either temptation, trials or test.

That's an interesting combination in my mind. The question in the lesson was about whether temptation can ever be a good thing. Are there positive outcomes to temptation? And for Jesus, was his temptation in the wilderness a kind of trial or test in preparation for his ministry?