Your Desert Journey

Deuteronomy 8:2
2Remeber the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

Moses wrote to the people of Israel what God had given him. They would soon enter the promise land and the Lord wanted to be sure to remind His people what He brought them through so they wouldn't forget Him when He gave them what He promised. The people of Israel started out very disobedient and with a complaining spirit. So the Lord spent forty years stripping them of the old mindset and replacing it with new thinking so they could receive the new things He wanted to give them. Understand when the Lord desires to bless us with what He promised, we cannot receive it with old eyes, ears, heart and thinking. Everything has to be new because what He is giving is new. So however long it takes to break us of the old things is our desert time. During that time the Lord will still provide the necessities and even a few surprises but what is promised is on hold until the Lord knows we are at a place where we can receive. The catch is not to forget who blessed us when the gifts are released. God is the giver of the gifts and it's not because we have deserved them but because He decided to bless us. We are not to forget to have a heart of gratefulness. Being without humbles us enough so that when we do receive we will appreciate. Where are you in your desert journey? Are you about to enter the promise land? Remember, it's because of the Lord not you.

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