I am not sure if I want to continue on writing about the heartache of the recent circumstances. Who was the person who declared that being in the wilderness was not a good thing? I know that God sent Jesus into the wilderness to retreat from all of the things going on so that he could focus on the Heavenly Father. He wanted the GLORY! That is no different today. I believe we are some times called into the wilderness so that we can remain focused or rather regain focus on bringing God the most glory in our lives. One thing is for sure…He never left Jesus or Moses or Paul in the wilderness. He sent them there for the time each of them needed to regroup.
I believe I am at a place where its necessary for me to be in the wilderness right now. I need to regroup on what God is doing in and through me. One thing that was most freeing for me through all of this was the other night when I was talking to my mentor she said, “its not about him. it is not even about you. It is about whether or not we are giving God the glory!” I could repeat my statement here from last night when I quoted the line from the song How He Loves… He is jealous for me.
Have you ever read this: The 1964 Wilderness Act states that wilderness, “…in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”
I don’t know about you, but I don’t think the wilderness is a place we can create for ourselves nor do I think its a place we dictate the functionality. We are simply a visitor and will not remain there. Like I said earlier – He did not leave them in the wilderness. Kinda cool, huh? Typically, I would think of the wilderness as a dark deep place in the middle of NOWHERE – sounds kind of depressing and boring. But then I saw this picture and I’m not sure this image will disappear when I mention the wilderness I am in.
