That story just sounds like the free will choice we all have in every moment; the choice of focusing on positive or negative. Jesus obviously understood the LOA, so he wouldn't succumb to his own negative thoughts and beliefs. In this sense God and the Devil are just ways of alluding to the positive or negative choice we all always have.

I fail to see how it's possible to be without desire. Through the contrast of our life we automatically desire positive change. When we're hungry we desire food, when we cut our finger we desire to stop the bleeding, when we're in emotional or psychological pain we desire change, so we do things to make us feel better.

Now if you're referring to an unconscious or spiritually unaware person who desires more or desires what someone else has due to his own ignorance that he's unaware and thus controlled by his own egotistical thinking; that's another story.

So no, although desire can be due to ego gratification, desire in itself is not temptation.

is this not a personal conundrom that each one of mankind needs to work out,
as being alive in a physical form that operates from sensations?
which is it that we choose to follow, the perception of the flesh or the intuitive control of our will?
as a being of change, do we learn to adapt or grow or both,
or do we, look to what is working for others who share our organization although not of our individual structure,
follow or unfold, listen to the experts or know thyself?
Jesus, no doubt, knew himself and chose accordingly.

peace

as Ronnie Dio says in the song "Die Young"

"Life's fantasy is to be locked away and still to think you're free, therefore, live for today because tomorrow never comes."