August 29, 2010: Into the Wild – Michael Hidalgo

The Spirit leads Jesus into the wilderness. Not only that, but then at the end of this ordeal Jesus is directly tempted by Satan, not once, but three times. It is interesting that many times our journey to God is an attempt to control God – and even control our world. But the reality is that control is mostly a false reality. How can any of us really believe that we have our world all worked out?

C.S. Lewis when speaking of God said, “He is wild you know.” And this is the journey we see Jesus on. A journey into the wild … into the unknown. Like any great mythic hero or epic we see Jesus journeying into the wild – classic man vs. nature. How would our spiritual journeys change if we began to journey into the wildness of God – to discover a God who cannot be controlled – a God who is endless love?