Jesus said: "Strive to enter through the narrow gate" (Luke 13.24), and he himself gave us the 'as when the Mount of Olives in prayer faced the struggle, the agony decisive (Luke 22:44). Faced with the alternative between remaining faithful to the Father, even at the cost of suffering an ignominious death, or cover the ways suggested by a demon, he remained fully obedient to God, to accept the arrest without changing the style of gentleness and love that had marked his entire life. The same was done on the cross, where, symmetrically to the temptations which he suffered in the desert, has been mentioned repeatedly by men words similar to those of Satan:
"He saved others, save himself, if the Christ of God, the Chosen One. "
"If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself."
"Do not Are you the Christ? Save yourself and us! "(Lk 23.35.37.39).
But Jesus did not want to save himself, by contrast, has chosen to faithfully fulfill the will of God, continue to act until his death in obedience to him, that loving and serving God and man: this was cause of death for Jesus, but because of life for all men! It is in answer to that life when he struggled to resist the temptations of Satan and to be always capable of love, whom the Father drew him from the dead.
All this has for us a crucial result: only Jesus Christ, who lives in each of us, can overcome the evil that lives there, and the spiritual battle is exactly the space in which the life of Christ triumphs over the power of evil, sin and death. Each of our victory is nothing but a reflection of Christ's paschal victory, he knows our weaknesses com-passion, having been tempted in every way that we are but without sin (cf. Heb 4:15), and now "is always living to intercede on our behalf" (Hebrews 7:25).
is therefore Christ that we can invoke the words of the psalmist: "In my struggle to be you fight!" (Ps 43.1, 119.154) is with him and in him that every day, despite the effort of fight, we can make thank God, singing: "Blessed be the Lord, my rock! He trains my hands for battle, my fingers to the art of struggle "(Ps. 144.1).
Enzo Bianchi Prior of the Community of Bose
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