Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God

“ Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God , and Him only shalt thou serve” Matthew 4:10

Jesus was rebuking the devil after the devil had temped him to satisfy his fleshly desires to eat.  Jesus had fasted for  forty days and forty nights in the wilderness and was hungry in the flesh , his natural desire to eat  was to force God, to come to his terms and satisfy his human desire.  Like as we try to do.  We are always calling out to God to do this or do that: which is what our human wants.  Jesus was human in the flesh just as we, but he refused to serve his natural desire.  He knew this was  of the devil           After Jesus rebuked this way: as being evil, it departed and he was ministered by the angels who satisfied his needs as God seen fit .
This is why he could say “I am the way the truth and the light, No man cometh to the Father but by me.” It sounds like he was speaking about his physical and natural self, If so, that would have been boastful for that’s the way the natural mind thinks, which is the devil speaking : Jesus was speaking of a new and living way to become one with God, as He was one with God. A way which he alone knew and wanted us to follow. A way of sacrifice ! He said “ I do nothing of myself, the Father who is in me he doeth the works.  that is why he demands of us to surrender without a mental reservation.
Jesus gave up `his natural mind which came to him by way of his natural and physical birth into this world,  and I don't mean he was without mind,  he was a carpenter and did all of the things needed to care for himself and his family but, he refused to put his confidence in this way of life. He surrendered what seemed right to him, to what was God’s will:   as in the garden where he lay prostrate in prayer, asking that this cup be passed from him , which was another temptation, for the natural flesh does not want to die.   Never the less, surrending to the will of God.
This is “Surrendering to God without a mental reservation!” (without a reservation to that which seemed right in his own eyes.)
This is the way the truth and the light, and no man cometh to the Father but by this way! This is the way of true Sacrifice. Sacrificing your will, your being , your mind, that which is highly esteemed by you. When Jesus said “ follow me .” He did not mean to just follow him around in the natural as many did . whom , He said. followed him for the loaves and fishes, yet their hearts were far from Him . He wanted man to follow him into a newness of life and learn of Him.