A081 The Desolate Place

Eremos: The Wilderness of Power

500 words: 3 minute read
A devotional based on a note from my Bible note-taking system.

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness…

Luke 4:1

42 And when it was day, he departed and went into a desolate place. And the people sought him…

Luke 4:42

Jesus would often leave the towns or cities to find quiet, desolate places to pray or seek God. Over ten times in the gospels Jesus is recorded seeking out the quiet place.

The word often translated desolate place or wilderness is eremos. The eremos was Jesus’s place of power.