Jesus did not go into the wilderness to be tempted. According to the Joseph Smith Translation Jesus went out to be with his father. To commune with God, and while he was there being spiritually fed, then the devil came to him to tempt him. This is an important destination. We should not seek out temptations, we should avoid them. But you will also find that as you serve the lord, temptations will come all by themselves. You don't need to go looking for them.
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“Jesus did not go into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil; righteous men do not seek out temptation.
He went ‘to be with God.’ Probably he was visited by the Father; without question he received transcendent
spiritual manifestations. The temptations came after he ‘had communed with God,’ ‘after forty days.’ The
same was true in the case of Moses. He communed with God, saw the visions of eternity, and was then
left unto himself to be tempted of the devil. After resisting temptation he again communed with Deity,
gaining further light and revelation.” (McConkie, DNTC, 1:128; see also Mosiah 3:7.)
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