Wilderness...

Poem

Looking up through pine needles and leaves

Squinting in the bright suns light

Toward the sky so blue

While the sun sets

Away fades the sun

Cool breezes swipe across my cheeks

I close my eyes briefly to breathe in the cool air

When my eyes adjust to the night

Darkness falls and stars twinkle

A chill in the air pushes clouds in covering up the stars

I close my arms around my body

Night and day the wilderness changes

I pray Lord don’t let it last too long

Is your wilderness beautiful, or have you allowed it to become dark and capture your light?

Everyone will picture a wilderness differently. Some may say a wilderness is dark and dreary while others may describe it as beautiful with the sun’s ray’s shining down between the trees, any way you picture a wilderness, yes! both descriptions are correct.

A wilderness in life can be either one. And an actual wilderness can sometimes be filled with darkness and feel dreary and cool, other times, be so peaceful with the beauty of the sun’s warm ray’s giving light to the forest.

When we go through a wilderness in life we will encounter both settings, it’s what you do while waiting in the moment that makes your wilderness dark or light, but in the midst of waiting to be rescued what you do will determine the length of your stay.

Looking at Ruth in the bible, her wilderness was terribly dark losing her husband, having to leave her home and travel a great distance to a new beginning while Naomi her mom in law was telling her to go back to her own people and not come with her. Ruth refused to allow her circumstances she was faced with to retreat and give up. Ruth pushed past the darkness in her wilderness and dug for the light to shine through she never gave up she worked extremely hard to survive and in the times where she couldn’t see the sun’s beautiful ray’s spreading light into the midst of her forest, she kept on persevering forward through the darkness that was trying to trap her in the wilderness of defeat but it couldn’t attach itself to Ruth, she was untouchable. The blessings being prayed for her and God’s hand upon her life brought peace into her wilderness.

No matter where you are in your wilderness take note of Ruth’s story keep your eyes fixed on God so even in the darkness God’s light will shine and while enjoying the shining sun’s ray’s in your forest know in those moments you regain strength and can push through tall trees blocking your light.

Ruth 1:16&17 NLT

But Ruth replied, “Don’t ask me to leave you and turn back. Wherever you go, I’ll go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. Wherever you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me severely if I allow anything but death separate us!”

Ruth 2:12 NLT

May the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge, reward you fully for what you have done.

Colossians 3:23&24 NIV

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, and not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.

Numbers 6:26 NIV

“’The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.”’