My eyes are drawn to the person of humbled and contrite spirit.

Daily Reflection

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A man on his way to a retreat house in the Egyptian desert decided to walk the last few miles to the site of the monastery.

He stepped off the bus in a small village and confidently set out across the desert. A few hours later, he realised that he was lost. Instead of arriving at the monastery self-assured and proud, he eventually found his way there humbled and grateful to be alive.

He said, "I gradually came to understand one of the most important things the desert had to teach me: To enter the desert is to relinquish the illusion of control."

Being in charge of our own destiny is a fantasy we cling to. But when God takes us through a "desert" experience, we learn that our only hope rests in Him.

After forty years in the wilderness, with the Promised Land finally in sight, Moses challenged God's people to remember a lesson from those years: "He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you manna....., that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord." (Dt. 8:3)

If you are in a "desert" today, take heart. God is still in control. He is teaching you to depend on Him.

I strode into the desert of my will,
Obsessed with every mirage that I could chase;
God let me wander aimlessly until
I cried for the oasis of His grace.

In every desert trial
God has an oasis of comfort.

Gustafson
Our Daily Bread

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