Before becoming a Christian, I’ve always wondered why was there a need to be wild without a winning formula to foment seeking a new way of living. I was most comfortable doing what seemed to be right in my mind. I was ignorant of facts, nor did I had any fortitude to do the right things. I came to believe that God at times purposely put us in places just to see how faithful we are. Can this be attributed to the wilderness? Or, could it be an ideal place to be tested and to learn faith initiatives and perseverance? The more you’re apt to study this phase the more you’re able to appreciate how you can withstand and pass God’s final exam without Hiim having to grade on the curve! Yes, there are lessons to be learn while you there preparing you to rejoin from insanity to saint. Ultimately God spoke to them in the wilderness, as well as humbled them to remember and obey. I found this in Deuteronomy 8:2, where it clearly states that a 40 day stay in the wilderness was necessary to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would be subsequently compliant. David was able to repent, Moses was a changed man once finding sanity, and Jacob saw a ray of hope in standing up anew. I’m sure there’s a need for being in the wilderness, and how it would be beneficial to you. It is said that a wilderness period has no set amount of time before lessons are learned in an expedient way. It could last days, months, years…and if you’re not recalcitrant you can find yourself perpetually doomed!

      One Pastor Eric H. Jones, has written and preached on the End Times theme, which should be first and foremost on understanding the parallel effect on it, and how being in the wilderness is subjective to wanting to validate coming from corrupted to corrected. A common experience in our faith is how not being in position can affect our lives. We need to learn both, including the rules of spiritual survival. Jesus was tempted at least three times in the wilderness, and each time He gave explicit dictates on acceptable ways of escape. What is the lesson for us to adhere to relative to Jesus’ 40 day wilderness occupation? Provision, trial, and worship were what Satan came at Jesus with, but perhaps your wilderness experience may be precipitated on entirely different circumstances. Know too, that any wilderness situation is designed to give credence to a better way of living having gone through trials and tribulation. It’s an essential part of transitional well-being. I’m sure you can remember dark days of your lives when you were at the mercy of circumstances that dictated the way you had to conform to validate wrong. You probably knew what you needed to sustain habitual ennui.  Such is the life where Satan can influence your diaspora to keep you chained and bound.  We were created to be just like Christ, but for us to be where He wants us to be in the end, a wilderness connection can’t be avoided.

     As I close, I’m most sure that when we try to escape the wilderness and God’s plan of testing for our livelihoods, we try to minister only in our natural strength as Moses did without relying on God’s way (Exodus 2:11-15). This is not the right way. I look at it this way: I would rather spend forty years in the wilderness and minister only one day in the Lord’s strength, than to spend one day in the wilderness and minister forty years in my own strength. I will not compromise what I’ve learned about being lost without a way back to salvation.  I feel that it’s a vital part of what needs to be done as it could deeply affect the way you and I relate and minister to others.