The Choice Places

“A voice of one calling:

“In the wilderness prepare

    the way for the Lord;

make straight in the desert

    a highway for our God.”

Isaiah 40:3

We’d like to think that it is the mountaintop experiences in our lives that make wide the entrance to welcome the Spirit of the Lord.

The verse above says otherwise.

In our lives, it is the desert and wilderness experiences that are far more able to prepare the way for the Lord than those wonderfully blissful mountaintop experiences.

Sure, who would deny the exhilaration of standing and looking out from the high peaks and survey the landscape.

Certainly that has to be far more exciting than the wilderness.

We would likely be moved greatly by Gods’ creation and stand in awe of His handiwork in the rarified atmosphere of the mountaintop, but, in the valleys, in the dry places and loneliness of the wilderness our souls cry out in earnest anguish for His presence to accompany us.

That is where, unlike any other place, we seek and find intimate fellowship in His presence.

The mountaintop – like a scenic highway overlook – is often crowded with others.

Not so the desert or the wilderness.

Press in at those seasons and know the company of His presence!