The beauty of all this—to use a somewhat unexpected word when speaking of spiritual desolation—is that everything about it is a lie: either an outright lie or a truth that desolation skews and mixes with a lie. When we perceive this, captives are set free to reject the lie and walk firmly toward the Lord they love.
EVERYTHING about desolation is a lie. Everything. Just like the lie of I’ve never experienced consolation, I, not experiencing it now and I never will again. It is ALL a lie,
