FAITH CAPSULE: The wilderness journey is a wild journey where nothing works but faith.

Exodus 13:17-22, Matthew 4:1-17

A wilderness journey of life is possible to be a tough time.
In the wilderness journey of life, pleasant things of life are unable to be enjoyed. The time of the wilderness journey of life comes with the spiritual, financial, or emotional challenge but never beyond the intervention of God to see through.
The Bible records, “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.” (Matthew 4:1) 
Jesus, Lord, and savior passed through the wilderness before getting to the center of His divine assignment. If Jesus, Lord, and savior is with no exemption from the wilderness journey, there should be no one to be exempted from journeying through the wilderness journey before arriving at the center of the divine assignment. 
In life, it is how wild a wilderness journey is that will determine how challenging one will engage for the glory of God.
The wilderness journey is a journey of no turning back. 
In every wilderness journey, there is no back road or short cut to arrival at the expected end but must be navigated entirely. 
The deliverance of the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years, to the Promised Land, could not be through a short-cut or back road but the wilderness journey. Exodus 13:17-18 records, “Then it came to pass when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.” So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.” The wilderness journey of life is not a route to avoid challenges of life, but actually, to experience the process to become positioned in the promise of God that is good for life.
The wilderness journey is not a journey which one plans for, it is a journey that puts one in the plan of God.
The wilderness journey is not a journey of comfort neither is it a journey of choice or interest. 
The wilderness journey is a journey for every man in the hand of God to pass through to learn obedience. 
It is recorded for all to know that the wilderness journey is inevitable for all that is with the calling of God. 
In your answering to the calling of God, are you seeking for a back road or short-cut to avoid the wilderness journey?
The wilderness journey is a journey of trial and temptation, it can be an un-encouraging route with pain, but with obedience to the direction of God, it is the only available avenue that leads through the promise of God into claiming the promises of God without failure. 
Any attempt to avoid the wilderness journey will make a believer become a wanderer to arrive at the wonder of God.
Engage your wilderness journey by knowing that God is able to see you through.

Prayer for today: Ask from God to enable your answering to His calling.