One in a Million: Journey to Your Promised Land

by Priscilla Shirer

It’s awfully easy to get disillusioned with God out here in the wilderness. It’s easy to think He’s forgotten you, doesn’t care about you, doesn’t love you. It’s easy to start asking why your best isn’t good enough to earn you at least a little bit of relief from this constant upset and turmoil, from the choking dryness and dustiness. But listen, you don’t have to figure out the wilderness. You don’t have to fix the wilderness. You don’t have to be able to explain to your church friends why you’re going through the wilderness. Your job as a much loved, highly treasured child of God is simply to yield to the wilderness because it’s often only in the wilderness where our runaway desires can finally be boiled down to this: “One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in His temple” (Ps. 27:4). The wilderness is God’s way of making us want the only thing that’s really worth having. The wilderness, my friend, is worth it.