You’re probably moving slow, and you need lots more sleep. You’re lonely and you feel as though you’re never going to feel any different, ever.
You’ve tried to prove that you’re bigger than your vices.
#Go into the wilderness how to#
The wilderness is where you are when nothing seems to be working and you’re not sure how to fix it. But he got to a place where he just couldn’t do it anymore. Moses had been leading the children of Israel for about a year, and it had been hard. If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once. I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me. Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, “Carry them. Why have you treated your servant so badly?. So they complained to Moses, and Moses went to God and lost it. When you’re in the wilderness, it’s easy to think that Egypt wasn’t really all that bad. They fondly remembered the fish they used to eat in Egypt (when they were slaves), along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic. One of my favorite wilderness stories is found in Numbers 11, in which the children of Israel were sick of manna (a kind of bread that God provided for them in the wilderness every morning). The wilderness offers you a chance to be restored by God, if you will stay there long enough.Ī few words about what it feels like to be in the wilderness: Your normal way of life doesn’t work anymore. It’s the place where you learn the ordinary you is enough. It’s the place where you learn you’re not all that impressive, and you don’t need to be. No matter how weak, how frail, or how lost. In the wilderness, you’re given the opportunity to be sustained by the God who will go all the way with you, no matter how hungry you get. And when it grows, you can offer it to those who are overcome with shame and regret. The wilderness is a womb in which mercy can grow, if you let it. I’m finding them to be much better guides for me in the second half of my life. In my own wilderness journey recently, God has been replacing Approval and Admiration with Compassion and Intimacy. And when you do, I hope you find comfort in knowing that the wilderness is the place where God speaks. You will end up in the wilderness more than once in your life.
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