Wandering

Psalm 107:4-9
Some wandered in desert wastelands,finding no way to a city where they could settle. 5 They were hungry and thirsty,and their lives ebbed away. 6 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. 7 He led them by a straight way to a city where they could settle. 8 Let them give thanks to the LORD for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for men,9 for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.

Being in the desert is no fun at all. The feeling like God is not there and that you are hopelessly walking through this life with no end in sight. But it is interesting that being in the desert makes one hungry and thirsty and then able to come to the end of oneself and see the need to turn to the Lord. It's at that point that you realize that God never moved but that you did. I can walk 10,000 steps away from God and it only takes one to get back to Him. It's at that point after returning that God fills the hunger and satisfies the thirst. Sin like a desert will cause us to lose sight of God and keep us wandering around thinking that God does not care or that somehow He has forsaken us, but the truth is that He has not moved nor forsaken us. Coming to the end of myself is one of the best things that can happen because it is then that I realize that I cannot go on without God filling me up.

Father come and fill me up today so that I might live for you and so that I will not give sin a foothold in my life.