Israel’s wilderness story shows us a failure that we would do well to remember and avoid in our own lives. When hunger and hardship came, the Israelites forgot God’s goodness—failing to be grateful and to have faith in him, evidenced also by their failure to pray. But where Israel failed, Jesus prevailed. In his own hunger in the wilderness, he trusted the Father and refused to test him. The season of Lent reminds us that faith is sustained by remembering who God truly is—and trusting him even in the wilderness.
