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(Rom. 1, 1–7, 13–17; Matt. 4:25–5:13) After the Lord’s baptism, when the Spirit descended on Him in the form of a dove, He was brought down into the desert to be tempted. This is the common path for everyone. St. Isaac the Syrian notes in one place that as soon as you taste grace-filled consolation or receive some gift from the Lord, wait for temptation. Temptations hide the lightness of grace from a person’s own eyes, which usually eat up all goodness with conceit and self-exaltation. These temptations are also external - sorrows, humiliation; and internal - passionate thoughts that deliberately descend, like animals from chains. Therefore, how much we need to listen to ourselves and strictly analyze what happens to us and in us in order to see why it is so and what it obliges us to. You might be interested in: