Into the wild

"Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
Bring her into the wilderness,
And speak kindly to her."
Hosea 2:14

Sometimes we need to be taken into the wild to experience His kindness. Sometimes the desert is the only place that can allure us back to our God.

From the day before Justin's final exams:
"The Sovereign God unfolds His good plan with a vision of our lives from our first tears to our last breath, and every choice He makes in between is made in love. The loving choices can break our hearts. The loving choices can shatter our souls. The loving choices can build faith, hope, and joy. You build faith, hope, and joy by entering into environments that require great faith, by entering into moments of hopelessness, by entering into worlds devoid of light and laughter. In need of everything, we find our surest need of Him. And we find Him the surest fulfillment of need.

I knew He might take us there. Into the sorrow."

Into the desert.

Because sometimes in the sorrow and the wild is waiting His greatest kindness.

Let us not fear the barren places, the environments without comforts, the settings of sorrow. It is in the wilderness that He draws us back. It is in the wilderness that love flourishes. Let us worship in the desert.