How do you define a desert? Dry, barren, unoccupied, empty. I think everyone goes through a season of life where in our spiritual walk is a desert. We can’t hear, see, or even feel God’s presence, I know I am not alone when I say that. For me and my life I know that this dry desert follows me a lot, but the upside about this is that it never last forever. When people are in the desert of their spiritual walk they tend to pull away from God. I think people start walk alone in the desert. People try to face the trials of the desert alone, I think many of us get to a point that we try to live like were doing fine, and we try to put on a face.
I try think about it like social media. I know that just like social media we all try to show the best parts of our lives, or the best angle of ourselves. I think most people are the same way with God. We only want to show God how great we are. I know I struggle with this all the time. I only want to present the good things in my life to God, and keep the broken and messed up things bottled up inside. That’s not how God intended us to live our lives, he intended us to live our lives with him. Not “come to me when your life is great” NO! He told all of us to “come as we are”. I know that I struggle with laying everything down to him, in those moments and times when I am hesitant my faith begins to dry up, like a desert.
I feel like sometimes this happens to everyones faith. You feel like you have to hide a part of yourself from God. What I am currently learning is that God wants to know you every part of me. God wants to walk with me in everything. He wants to walk me through the valleys. God did not intend for me to do life alone.
