Satan Attacks at Weakest Moment—While in the wilderness, Christ fasted, but He was insensible to hunger. Engaged in constant prayer to His Father for a preparation to resist the adversary, Christ did not feel the pangs of hunger. He spent the time in earnest prayer, shut in with God. It was as if He were in the presence of His Father. He sought for strength to meet the foe, for the assurance that He would receive grace to carry out all that He had undertaken in behalf of humanity. The thought of the warfare before Him made Him oblivious to all else, and His soul was fed with the bread of life, just as today those tempted souls will be fed who go to God for aid. He ate of the truth which He was to give to the people as having power to deliver them from Satan’s temptations. He saw the breaking of Satan’s power over fallen and tempted ones. He saw Himself healing the sick, comforting the hopeless, cheering the desponding, and preaching the gospel to the poor,—doing the work that God had outlined for Him; and He did not realize any sense of hunger until the forty days of His fast were ended.{5BC 1080.2}

Satan angriber på det svageste øjeblik. - Da Kristus var i ørknen, fastede han, men Han mærkede ikke sulten. I sin stadige bøn med Sin fader, for at kunne modstå fjenden, mærkede Kristus ikke hungerens kvaler. Han brugte tid på alvorlig bøn, lukkede sig inde med Gud. Det var som om Han var i nærheden af Sin Fader. Han søgte efter styrke, for at imødekomme fjenden, for den forsikring, ville han modtage nåde til at gennemgå alt det Han havde påtaget for menneskehedens skyld. Tanken om den krig der var foran Ham fik Ham til at glemme alt andet, og Hans sjæl fik føde fra livets brød, ligesom i dag, hvor de fristede sjæle vil få føde, som går til Gud efter hjælp. Han spiste af den sandhed, som Han skulle give folk, med kraft til at udfri dem fra Satans fristelser. Han så Satans magt over faldne og fristede mennesker var brudt. Han så Sig selv der helbredte syge, trøste de håbløse, opmuntre de fortvivlede, og forkynde evangeliet for fattige, gøre det arbejde som Gud havde lagt for Ham, og Han indså ingen følelse af sult, før de fyrre dage af hans faste var til ende.