Dersert Days Have A Purpose

Good Morning!! Have you noticed that God had all of His heroes, spend time in isolation before they were truly ready to do the work He had planed for them? I like to call the period of time, felling alone, as our "desert days". Mark chapter one takes us back to the wilderness,...to the desert of a fallen world,...this is the location where God continues to take us, to build His highway to salvation. In the wilderness John the Baptist called people to the very presence of God,...and points them to the Christ.

Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness:—Mark 1:2b, 3a (NKJV)

A burning bush and a man named Moses; a maid servant named Hagar, kicked out of her home and left for dead in the desert; a nation called Israel, homeless and hungry in the wilderness yet led by cloud and fire. Saul, the murderer of Christ-followers, is blinded by a heavenly light as he travels through the desert on the Damascus Road, and becomes Paul the evangelist. Great things happen for us on the the other side of our wilderness and desert experiences.

Learn to rejoice in your "desert days", it simply means God is getting you ready for a move,
...to bigger and better things.

Sweet Spirit of God, help us to see out times of trials for what they truly are,...a chance to grow stronger in spirit and faith, that may be ready and will to see that; God's Will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.

"It's not whats in our hands that makes us thankful,
...it's what in our hearts."