My Wilderness

Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:19, ESV

I had just finished writing a devotional about being in the wilderness. I was on the plane listening to the Bible in the book of Luke when the scripture spoke about John the Baptist getting the word in the wilderness. I remember being so excited. I searched professor Google on the word wilderness and wrote the devotional. As soon as I finished the devotional another one just came in my spirit so I wrote that one too and filed it away. I felt so good. I went back into my file to find the first one I had written and it was gone! I could not find it anywhere in my file.

I could feel myself going into this anxiousness (wilderness) experience. My husband was sitting next to me on the plane and he could see me getting worked up. He asked what was wrong and I shared with him what happened. He said just wait! It will show up. I immediately remembered what God had said to me in the devotional I had written earlier. So I prayed, “God help me to hear your word in this wilderness experience. Thank you for thinking of me and for giving me this experience”.

Although it was a small thing we can so easily embrace Satan’s attacks and not even know it. I say embrace because we have a choice, but most times we do not realize it. We just go with whatever comes to us. After prayer I made the choice to just wait. I moved from that worried, anxious, fretful place to a calm, peaceful place. I concluded that if God wanted me to have the devotional He would give it back to me. We have the choice in the wilderness and God is always there with us, we just have to surrender to Him.

Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11

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