Why Do We Need a Desert Experience?
The journey towards your true calling
What is a desert experience? Why do we need to undergo such a time of difficulty, suffering and emptiness before we could receive our true calling?
“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her. I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope…” (Hosea 2:14–15, WEB-BE)
Even Jesus needed a desert experience before He started out on His ministry, His true calling. He needed the desert to give Him what a life of comfort and luxuries could never be able to give.
We need a desert experience:
- To empty ourselves of our false callings and dreams
A desert experience will test us, it will challenge our beliefs, our values, our dreams.
Imagine a true desert, arid as it is where almost no plant ever grows and few animals ever dare live. It will not pay respect to all your trivialities. It will lay bare your true substance. It will remind you that you are naked, that you have brought nothing with you when you were born, and you will bring nothing back when you die.
In the face of death, what’s left to give importance to? What really matters anyway?
