Forty years in the Wilderness
Is forty years a time to start hurrying? Sometimes, I feel there is so much still remaining for me to do. I become acutely aware of my own ticking biological clock. I get impatient to go ahead with the Lord's work in my life. Surprisingly, God does not work that way. In my quiet time, He reveals that there is still a lot of ME that has to be dealt with. He seeks my heart, my plans, my efforts and my striving all to be surrendered, before He takes me away from this wilderness and places me in some certain corner of His grand master plan. Below are some of the conversations from my quiet time. Preamble 1: 40 years in the wilderness Deuteronomy 2:7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing. Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wild...