Too often, we place Christ up on a pedestal, forgetting for the moment, that though Christ was divine, He was also fully human by His incarnation on this earth, and being fully human, was subject to all the enticements and lures that all of us have felt at one time or another. This does indeed mean, than when Jesus the Christ, had fasted for forty days and forty nights, that, no doubt, his body was extremely hungry, for the physical has a need for nourishment in order to sustain itself. So then, when tempted to turn stones into bread by Satan, Christ was already at a physical low, and such a temptation was meaningful in the sense that His body did indeed need food, yet, Christ, would not relent and misuse His great powers, which were fully developed through His connection to the unlimited capacities of God. So too, when tempted to throw Himself off of the highest point of the temple, in which Satan promised Christ that the angels would save Him, Christ indicated that such a testing was not sanctioned by God. Then, finally, when given the opportunity to be the King of all the kingdoms of this world, that is, to rule it all, Christ, indicated that He came to serve and to serve only God.
While it is true, that in order to sustain our bodies that we need food and drink in order to do so, it is important to note that those that place the physical and make it preeminent and thereby above the spiritual have their priorities wrong, for in becoming overly devoted to the physical, we allow the physical to dictate to us our needs and desires, rather than using our mind and our great spiritual resources to tame the physical and to become therefore rulers of it, for though we have physical bodies, our eternal essence is not physical, and never will be, it is instead, spiritual, and therefore it is the spiritual that should lead and the physical will follow.
So too, an untamed ego can place us in all sorts of harm and troubles, for when we allow our ego to run riot, it will find all sorts of ways to take our focus away from being a good neighbor and treating each other with respect, and instead replace it with a belief, that we are better than others, and believing such, it so does follow, that we deserve more than others, because of our superiority, in which this feedback loop feeds upon itself, and thereby makes it fairly easy to come to a stage in which we accord to ourselves special privileges and immunities, whereas, in actuality, we are no more nor no less, than anyone else, though we no longer believe that.
Then, there is the lure of power, especially of the power over other people, in which, such power, brings forth the advantages of having it, such as the subservience and unmerited respect given to us as a matter of course, as well, as being able to demand and to get whatever we so desire, so that, the efforts and labors of others, are ultimately siphoned unto ourselves, because we have the authority to take what is not rightfully ours, by virtue of our position which allows us to assert ourselves against those that cannot prevent it. All of this drives us well away from the spirit which should be our source of good power and growth, and instead feeds our willful mind, that luxuriates in worldly goods and privileges.
When challenged by Satan, Christ faced his challenges, one by one, and conquered each one, to signify and to solidify that He was fully aligned and in perfect harmony with His Creator. Yet, these challenges are in one form or another, the same challenges that each of us must face, and thereby conquer, for if we do not, how we can say, that we are truly good children of the Most High God.