Wilderness
I had planned on watching a movie during a recent plane ride, but I realized I had all this time to listen to the Bible. I opened the Bible App and started listening to the book of Luke. I let it play for a while until I heard these words: “The word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness”. I immediately stopped the app. After sitting for a moment, I took out my iPad and began writing.
The word “wilderness” sat in my spirit. John received the Word in the wilderness. I immediately went to Professor Google and looked up all the definitions for “wilderness”.
Wilderness:
Hebrew: wasteland, desolation, wilderness, vast, wild.
Greek: an empty space, a place which is “deserted” and void of people, wasteland where nothing of use to humans may be found, with hardly any flora and next to no fauna.
Webster: an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region.
I love how God can give us one word and it takes us on a journey with Him. It does not matter where we are or what state we are in - the word of God can find us. It also brings to mind that a desolate place can sometimes be good for us. Most times we are not anxious to be in the wilderness, but it seems that this is a place where the Word is revealed. Remember, Jesus went into the wilderness full of the Holy Spirit and came out in the Spirit’s power. The wilderness experience may not always be what we want, but if we settle ourselves, we can hear God speaking to us there.
We all want to know how to use the authority that we have been given through the Holy Spirit. John and Jesus received revelation in the wilderness. Most times we are so busy doing things we think are important that we cannot hear God trying to get our attention.
But when we are in that wilderness, when we don’t know what to do, when we feel lost…that’s a good place to be. There, the Holy Spirit comes and settles on us, bringing revelation to meet our need. Remember Job? He sat in the wilderness with no answers. He had lost so much and yet God allowed him sit. In the end, God had great blessings for Job but he had to go through the wilderness to get to the other side.
Father, most times we can be so anxious in our wilderness place that we don’t think to seek you. We ask that you help us to slow down in the place you have us in and seek your face so that we can hear your revelation. In Jesus’s name. Amen.
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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