The sooner we learn the lesson of Shur, the sooner we will be promoted and given the grace to move out.
We can shorten the wilderness by allowing God’s purpose to be fulfilled in it. Instead we need to take our problem to the Father who can right all wrongs.
In the same vein, we too can experience a great breakthrough and then three days later be griping about the way leadership has led us wrong. He can take the bitter waters of Marah and make them sweet. The same God that can handle the Red Sea can handle deserts and drought.
The Hebrews cried out to Moses for water, but not to God. “So the people vented their anger and grumbled against Moses and said, ‘What are we to drink?’” Exodus 15:24 And so they named it Marah, which means “bitter,” “grief,” or “calamity,” after the way they were feeling. But they soon became upset when they found that it was bitter and undrinkable. So when they saw the waters of Marah they must have been elated. The Israelites had made a three-day trek into the wilderness when they ran out of water. In the midst of our difficulties God designs tests that teach us his ways. Christians throughout the ages have discovered that God will turn everything into good if we will but love him through the difficulties of life. The Israelites knew that God was powerful, but they did not yet know that he was good. Miracles are meant to do more than fascinate our soul they’re meant to convince us that God’s faithfulness will not fail when the dry desert days come. When we turn our faces to Christ in the midst of pain and impossibility, Christlike character is formed within us. At times we assume that a continual experience of victory is the norm when in fact, victory is often sandwiched between the lessons we learn from our difficulties. The Israelites had just been delivered from their enemy at the Red Sea and were on their way to the promised land when, three days in, they experienced a shortage of water.Īfter the dance of victory, we now see them bitter and complaining. Great problems often follow great victories.Īfter the parting of a sea, there’s usually a desert. Nothing will harm you when you find your place there, seated with him on his throne in the heavenly places. This is your time to crawl up on God’s lap and find that you are truly his child. It’s in this land of limitation that our sonship is proven. And when there, it was the Word of God that gave him his breakthrough. No sooner had he heard the heavenly voice proclaim, “My Son, you are my beloved one” (Luke 3:21–22), then he was led into the wilderness to face the temptation of Satan. After a new revelation, a new test will often follow. Here are five of those lessons that we can learn from our wilderness experiences: 1. But it’s the place where the God of glory meets with the barren soul, showing us the deepest lessons of our life. You could say it this way: the wilderness is simply a place in life that you don’t want to be. The end of your strength is the beginning of his. There is a realm of plenty just beyond our limitations. Limitations are God’s veiled opportunities for his miracle provisions. They needed to be in that place for their advance, and so do we. It was because of God’s plan to trade their limitation for his limitless grace, mercy, love, and power. This was not because of their rebellion or disobedience. They had followed the cloud to a place of limitation. We’re up against a wall like the Hebrews were.
Not one! We are in a place of restriction and limitation that’s making it impossible to move forward without a miracle! In the same way, none of us are escaping the wilderness of the coronavirus right now. Shur is a Hebrew word that means “a wall,” “hemmed in,” or “limited.” God led them along a wall. For three days they trekked through the wilderness without finding water.” Exodus 15:22 “Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea into the Wilderness of Shur. And I feel as though the one we’ve entered in this season is the wilderness of Shur. Every Christian will most likely go through eight of them in their lifetime. There are ten named wildernesses in the desert wanderings of the Israelites. In fact, the word for “desert” in Hebrew means “the place of speaking.” For in the desert the Father speaks and awakens our hearts to hear. But take heart God will use our experiences here to cause this desert season to blossom like a rose. The question most people have when they’re led into a desert experience is why. I would characterize what many are facing right now as a wilderness or desert journey.
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