King Solomon reminds us, “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”

Have you ever been to the ‘desert’? We all have. These seasons where we don’t ‘feel’ God are the silent battles that condition us into what sort of Christians we’ll become- and few of us are properly armed. So much of the time, the spiritual battles we enlist ourselves in are fought in vain. We try to understand why we don’t feel God.

This is where guilt makes its entrance and this is where the fault in our time in the desert lies.

We try to figure it out. We forget to incorporate God in the equation.

We are so spoiled to the core that we don’t even realize the presence of God in our everyday circumstances, but only in our special ones.

God may be trying to teach you something about yourself and your walk with Him. I am asking you to dissect your priorities, expose the wound in your relationship with God, examine your affections to this world we are in but not of and I am telling you to exercise the power of prayer and not the capacity of your finite mind. By resisting God’s grace, we exemplify our own spiritual ignorance and are thoughtlessly severing our most valuable relationship with our most high Savior.

So, welcome to the desert.

The time to be extraordinarily relentless in your pursuit of God is now. I am certain if you remain wholly faithful to Him, this trial that will not kill you WILL make you stronger. You are only as close to our unchanging God as you allow yourself be.

We need to realize the beauty in struggle and find the blessing in conviction. And remember:

Your time in the desert is a privilege, not a punishment.