Driven!
Well beloved we are now in the Lenten season, a season of examination, stretching and ultimately change. It is my firm belief that the Lord desires that we grow. The challenge as always is where this growth will occur. Will we cruise merrily through life picking up daises along the way and gaining great insight from the daisy ministry? Perhaps, but not very likely; more often than not we grow through adversity, trials, heartache, closed doors and even death. Saints, these are things that happen in the desert places in our lives. Places that to the naked eye are unappealing, hold no visual value, and are places we would rather not venture into. Yet God has decided to make this landscape the lab for us to learn kingdom lessons.
So the text before us gives us the first lesson in the wilderness: Mark says that Jesus has just received the ultimate compliment from his father, “This is my son, in whom I am well pleased.” What a salutation! What happens next is really strange. Jesus is driven by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tested, tried, and tempted by the devil. The same Spirit that said I am pleased drives him into the desert.
We have to be driven into the wilderness! No one goes into the valley voluntarily, we must be driven. Today, as you read this be clear that God is still driving his disciples into the desert places; places where there appears to be little growth, loneliness and even hardship. *God understands that we will never arrive at the place he has ordained for us to be unless we are driven, pushed, maybe even shoved! Maybe today you feel like God is on your case, pushing you into a corner that you don’t want to be in, well you might be in the process of being driven into your wilderness!
To be continued…
Thought:
Lord thank you for driving me into my destiny.
Pray:
Lord thank you for not leaving me to myself.
Determined to live by faith,
Dr. Stan
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