The Story of Jesus & Struggle - Issue 12 - 5th June 2022
There is an endless amount of people who embraced struggle in order to achieve or produce meaning and purpose in the world. Each story is evidence of the power of embracing struggle, rather than meaninglessness of living in comfort and pleasure. The story of Jesus Christ, whilst it is disputed for it’s validity or truth, there is no doubt that he embraced struggle for his meaning and his beliefs. First, the story of The Temptation of Christ is chronicled in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke in which The Devil appeared to Jesus and attempted to tempt him three times, firstly to turn stone to bread, secondly to cast himself off of a mountain after which angels would save him, and lastly offering him all the kingdoms of the world. Jesus refused these temptations, temptations of comfort and pleasure and instead embraced struggle, to ward the Devil away. The symbolisation of the Devil as temptation, pleasure and comfort can be morally understood as locking horns with that of Jesus representing struggle, meaning and purpose.