The wilderness strips from your comfort, distractions, ego, and self-reliance. If you stick to the Word, pray, and contemplate those things are replaced with Identity rooted in God, Scripture as a guide, Humility and obedience, Vision, and finally authority forged in fire.

Just as in our last daily, God didn’t smite Rome and have Jesus send lightning bolts into the Roman Legionnaire army. He sent Jesus to put us on the right path toward faith, wisdom and love. Starting to see the pattern?