OUR WILDERNESS EXPERIENCES, INIATED BY GOD!

Today I am sharing a Excerpt from the book Sweetly Broken by Moses Asamoah. We are talking about our wilderness experiences.Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. ( Matthew 4:1)The wilderness experience is very much God-initiated.The dictionary description of a wilderness is a wild place untouched by human development. There is wildness about the place that causes us to reconsider ways of doing things and focusing on the priorities. In the wilderness, you feel alone, out of place, abandoned, disoriented, and inadequate and not in control. Welcome to the transformation chamber! Here, all wild urges and out-of-control personalities are brought under the authority of Jesus Christ.The wilderness experience is God’s personal time to break off the old and replenish with the new. The only way to endure and reap the full benefits of the wilderness is to embrace it and enjoy the aloneness with God. Consider it your personal encounter with God—a time for equipping you for the task at hand. Jesus’ wilderness at thirty prepared Him for the ministry. His wilderness in the garden of Gethsemane prepared Him for the cross.Just like Jesus, let’s embrace and enjoy the wilderness knowing:These are three signs of a God-initiated wilderness experience.

SIGN 1: The people who used to understand you no longer do.

SIGN 2: The activities that used to be fun and pleasurable fade away.

SIGN 3: Your weaknesses and character flaws become glaringly obvious to you.

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart (Hebrews 12:2-3).