Through the Wilderness

14 "Therefore I am now going to allure her;
I will lead her into the desert
and speak tenderly to her.

15 There I will give her back her vineyards,
and will make the Valley of Achor [a] a door of hope.
There she will sing [b] as in the days of her youth,
as in the day she came up out of Egypt.

16 "In that day," declares the LORD,
"you will call me 'my husband';
you will no longer call me 'my master.

Hosea 2:14-16



This is difficult. Nobody wants to go through the desert. I mean, come on, take me out of Egypt and just put me in the Promised Land right away, right?... right?...

The thing is it doesn't work that way. I read once that God will not do by miracle what we need to do in obedience. Another word I have come to accept and love… obedience.

Sometimes I rebel to obedience. I guess it is because I like doing things that feel good TO ME, and not what it correct. Don't get me wrong I am an imperfect Christian. I do have my ups and downs. And there are times that the Holy Ghost has asked me just to trust and to do, and here I go rationalizing everything. In my humanity, which again, happens to be an imperfect one (ok, I won't go with the "blame Adam and Eve for our sins". What is done, is done, although there are times I really would love to have a word or two with Eve… ), I tend to rely on the senses and not of what God can do… nah! Even I do not believe what I just wrote. The real deal? I am afraid, and scared, that God will leave me hanging, like some people have done to me.

The passages above were given to me a couple of days ago in the mist of something that I REALLY did not want to do. On one side, you have the Holy Ghost directing your steps, and then your heart is pulling you the other direction. But the heart, people, "is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?" (Jeremiah 17:9 NIV). The only thing remaining is TRUST, even if your heart has been broken to pieces. The only thing remaining is TRUST, even if you do not see the other side of what lays beyond the wall. The only thing remaining is to STEP ASIDE and let God be God. Then and only then, when we enter the wilderness, we are going to be able to hear God's voice calling. And no longer we will be called slaves. No longer will we call God master… we will call Him "my husband" and He, in love, will call us "my LOVE".