The world we journey in now is the wilderness of the Christian. The challenge of living in this particular wilderness is not merely external, in which we fight opposing forces from without. There is an internal reality to this wilderness, in which we must navigate the depths of our souls, souls that still long for the things of this world. As we are delivered from our enslavement, we must not only engage in practices with the body, but also open in the freedom of the Spirit to have our hearts move in harmony with the kingdom.
