This coming Sunday is the first Sunday in Lent and the gospel is the temptation/testing of Jesus in the desert. From the mundane of concerns about daily bread, we are taken to loft heights. 

⁵ Then he took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a single instant. ⁶ The devil said to him, “I shall give to you all this power and their glory; for it has been handed over to me, and I may give it to whomever I wish. ⁷ All this will be yours, if you worship me.” ⁸ Jesus said to him in reply, “It is written: ‘You shall worship the Lord, your God, and him alone shall you serve.’”