Old, Older, OLDEST!

And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead...But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him. Luke 10: 30,33. 

I've been to old places, and older places, but yesterday we went to the oldest place in the world! The city of Jericho. On the winding, dry hilled road to Jericho we made a stop and hiked to what may have been the mount of temptation. Here we talked about two stories in the bible, The good samaritan (as quoted above) and when Christ was tempted after 4o days of fasting. I sat there looking across the dry dessert of the western bank and thought about what it would be like to be Christ at this moment. Maybe we were all really hungry but we all thought the stones looked like pitta bread and thought those stones would've probably looked pretty tasty after 40 days of fasting! While I was sitting there I remembered the quote, "Never give up what you want most for what you want in the moment." Christ had such control over his carnal self that he was able to resist Satan's temptations so that he could be the Savior of the world. We sang, Have I Done any Good in the World Today, in respect to the good samaritan story and then made our way to Jericho! Jericho was awesome! It was hard to even fathom how old it really was--9000 BC!!! Believe it or not we went to all these places and even got back for lunch! It was a very busy morning. The rest of the day was spent working on my site report for Jordan which we leave for on MONDAY! Time flies so fast here and is jam-packed with things to do! So I apologize for my blog slacking! Until next time, over and out!