The Circuit Rider: Learn To Be Quiet Before God
One wonders sometimes why he meets with wilderness experiences as he goes through his life. Every individual has had the experience and all offer excuses and reasons.
However, the best answer to this perplexing question comes from the Bible based on the lives of men and women who have had the experience and lived close to God. I go to the life of Moses for my explanation of why the wilderness is in this life.
For 40 years Moses dwelled in the wilderness. Why would such a man do this? You must remember that before Moses entered the wilderness, he was self-centered and everything was done for him by someone else. He had it on easy street, so to speak. The end of that kind of living is always hurtful.
The first thing the wilderness did for Moses was to force him to control his temper. Then he mapped that wilderness as an individual and later he would come back to lead six hundred thousand people through it. It is a tremendous thought. It was the schoolroom of preparation for what he would be doing at a later time within his life.
But more importantly, he learned the lesson of being quiet before God. In the noise of the world, you can’t hear the voice of God very clearly. But when danger comes and the night gets long and the silence of it is not broken by a voice, a man has time to listen to God. And if he listens and obeys like Moses, he comes out in the glory.