Do we read the Bible as often as we check our iPad?

If we want to fight against the temptation of sin, we must be familiar with the Word of God - treating the Bible more like how we treat our iPad.

During the forty days of Lent, as Christians we are called to follow in the footsteps of Jesus and address the spiritual battle against evil with the power of the Word of God. For this we have to become familiar with the Bible, read it often, meditate on it, as similate it.

Someone said: What would happen if we treated the Bible like we treat our iPad? If we always carried it with us; or at least the small pocket-sized Gospel, what would happen?

We forget our iPad - oh! We do not have it, we go back to look for it; If we read the messages of God contained in the Bible as we read the messages of the iPad.

The temptation of Jesus in the desert by Satan, the episode comes at a spesific point, soon after Jesus' baptism in the Jordan River but before His public prosecution.

He has just received the solemn investiture: the Spirit of God descended upon Him, the Father from Heaven declared him 'My beloved Son'. Jesus is now ready to begin his mission.

But first He must go up against the Enemy, Satan, who presents Him with three temptations. By means of this triple temptations, Satan wants to divert Jesus from the path of obedience and humiliation - because he knows that in this way evil will be defeated.

But the Word of God is like a shield against the poisonous arrows of the devil. Jesus doesn't use just any words - he uses the words of God, and in this way, the Son, full of the Holy Spirit, emerges victorious from the desert.

This is what we must do against the temptations of the devil. The comparison between the Bible and our iPad is strange, but sobering.

In effect, if we had the Word of God always in our heart, no temptation could turn us away from God and no obstacle could deflect us from the path of goodness. We would know how to win against the daily temptations within and around us.

We would be better able to live a resurrected like in the Spirit, accepting and loving our brothers, especially the most vulnerable and needy and even our enemies.

Let us ask the virgin Mary, the perfect icon of obedience to God and of unconditional trust to His will, to help us to listen the Word of God in the Bible and to make a real change of heart.

And please, do not forget - do not forget! - What would happen if we treated the Bible like we treat our iPad. Think about this: the Bible always with us, close to us!