tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180095206501850443.post7386669020128478565..comments2023-06-06T11:58:14.959-04:00Comments on AlixRites®: Faith---The Evidence of Things Not SeenAlixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845338766501331604noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8180095206501850443.post-89293463239579900232007-02-25T08:02:00.000-05:002007-02-25T08:02:00.000-05:00Wilderness experiences. We all have them. Going ...Wilderness experiences. We all have them. Going from shaded, quiet, cool streams to hot desert is the worst. But it is a common experience.<BR/><BR/>Everyone has a "wilderness" experience that is their own. There are no "cookie cutter" experiences. Like children, we....each a unique design, experience life uniquely.<BR/><BR/>Funny thing about the wilderness...it works hard to separate us from others, conspires to convince us that we are alone, with it's solitude and wide open range....it almost succeeds, until God's Spirit whispers again, "I will never leave you or forsake you.<BR/><BR/>Isn't that what a lion does on the African plain, cut an animal out of the herd so that it will be more vulnerable, more suceptible to destruction, more liable to become dinner? And his role is to kill, steal, and destroy.<BR/><BR/>So in the wilderness there are two forces at work....the purpose of God, to grow us, encourage us, strengthen us....and the enemy..., who sees our wilderness experience as an opportunity to kill, steal, and destroy.<BR/><BR/>Strange isn't it, that while enjoying the cool stream, basking in the shade near the watering hole, we discount the truth that the enemy of our soul is just as real, just as menacing as he is in the wilderness. Most African game is killed at the watering hole, because the lions know that the deepest thirst will drive the animals to the water.<BR/><BR/>My thirst drives me....I love a God who provides "streams in the desert", who maks "a way of escape", and who knows that I am an easily bruised reed.<BR/><BR/>Is it hard, hot, and dry....yes.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14194701154612672605noreply@blogger.com