Beyond The Wilderness
One of the truly
great Biblical stories is the one about Moses’ encounter with God through
the burning bush. As is often the
case, we sometimes overlook the truths leading up to these wonderful stories.
In Exodus 3:1 we are told “Moses was keeping the flock of his
father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the
wilderness, and came to Horeb, the
It was there at Horeb, the
We have our wildernesses, too, though they be far different than the ones of
Moses. Jesus said we must live in
the world…a world full of busyness, complications, technology, conveniences,
and responsibilities. In the midst
of this wilderness, it is certainly difficult to hear the voice of God. And
yet if we only even hear His voice faintly, we must move towards the sound.
It may lead up on a journey we are not prepared for, but the struggle
will certainly be worth it.
Somehow, some way, we must go beyond the wilderness, beyond the ways and
challenges of this world. It is
there we may just find God waiting for us…waiting to tell us what He wants
us to do. While Moses’ journey
there was certainly a physical one, ours is more spiritual with the landscape
being the depths of our hearts. The
wilderness of this world pulls us towards scoreboards, joy security and its
own definition of success. Within
our hearts there is a journey and only we can take that journey.
With the presence of Christ in our lives, we can go beyond the
wilderness to the
May we pray for each other to make that journey…beyond the wilderness…and
into the will of God.