The Desert Prepares You for a Comeback

The Desert Prepares You For a Comeback

You can make a comeback…I spent the last several months talking about "exile". Once I came upon the theme of "exile" in the Bible, I started to see it everywhere. It's like when you buy a car and you start seeing that make and model all over the road. 

I just started a study of Luke's account of Jesus. The last verse in chapter one seems like a "throwaway" verse...a simple statement that wraps up a long chapter. But on second look, I saw another truth about exile. Luke is talking about John the Baptist:

...the child grew and became strong in spirit and he lived in the desert until he appeared publicly to Israel. Luke 1:80

Where did he grow and become strong?  In church? In seminary? At the university? No. In the desert...the last place we think good things can happen.

God Can Make a Way for Your Comeback

Our view of the desert is a place where your strength is drained. But not in God's economy.

God can make you grow and become strong any place he wants to do it. No matter what your situation is today, no matter how remote, how harsh, how isolated...God can use it to make you grow and become strong.

God can use any place to prepare you to make a comeback.

Father, help me to see my desert as a place where I can grow and become strong. Help me to not limit what you want to do in my life by my circumstances. Thank you for the good things you have in store for me. 

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