Thought For Today: “God’s Desert Experience”

With our current summer temperatures ranging around 115 and up, I thought about what King David said in Psalm 63:1. “O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.”

Some of the greatest works of God come in the desert. It was only when Moses left Egypt and the comforts of the palace that God spoke to Him in the burning bush in the wilderness. It was also in the wilderness that God gave to Moses the Ten Commandments. It was also in the desert that the Lord prepared the Apostle Paul for ministry.

The Hebrew word for “desert” is “midbar,” which is nearly identical to the Hebrew word “to speak,” which is “medaber.”

Often it is in the desert that God speaks. So, don’t shy away from the desert, or those times when everything seems and feels dry and desolate. God may be preparing to speak into your life.

“Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” (Isaiah 43:19)