I feel the prompt of the wild goose to testify of God’s amazing grace! Any true believer is well aware that God is everywhere. He is in the laughter as well as the tears. In the joy and the sorrow! “I will never leave you nor forsake you declares the Lord” and “lo I am with you always”. these are promises that our Loving Heavenly Father has given us. Why is it that we wander around life doubting these promises? Can we not take God at His word? Is He not trustworthy? Is His grace and Love conditional on how we live or don’t live? God forbid! if this be true, we really are lost and without hope! I have often wondered about that verse that speaks to our “working out our salvation”. I never really understood what that meant until recently. The “desert” comes to try us and find out what we are made of. To purify us as a refiners fire does precious metal. The only way that we can truly reflect the character of Christ in us is through fire. “Christ in us, the hope of glory” . So the working out of our salvation happens as we walk through the fire in the desert. During these past 6 years in the swamp/desert God has been working all things together for my good according to His will…..”He who began a good work in you will finish it”. Just as we pull our hand away when it touches fire, so are natural tendency is to run from the pain and the trial God has allowed in our lives. We try to wiggle out, to escape, to bargain with God, to manipulate the situation to an end that we are happy with. We through our tantrums and pity parties and just “want the misery to end”, to get to the other side of this! We are more concerned about the end than we are the process. Trust me, God is way more concerned about the process and how we respond. He knows the outcome and just wants us to trust Him and let the trials accomplish their work in us to the glory of God! The longer we kick and scream, the longer it will take for us to be refined and perfected in Christ. I am here to say with a resounding YES! God is in the desert! He has shown Himself faithful and true to Himself, His character and His word. “the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory”! You want to see the glory of God? I believe He is best seen in the dark of the desert! When human reasoning says, “my God, why have you forsaken me?” The gospel was perfected through great pain and tragedy! He was born to suffer and die so that we might live! True life and freedom comes with a great price! Jesus paid for our freedom with His life! Why are we surprised when we suffer pain, trials and misfortune? Human nature does not like pain! Even the perfect one grieved over the thought of the pain to come, even to the point of death. So let us consider ourselves Sons and daughters of the Most High when we encounter various trials that are for our good and God’s glory! For He truly is in the Desert for that is where I re-found Him.
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