FAITH CAPSULE: The wilderness journey is inevitable for all that is with the calling of God. 

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

Navigating the wilderness journey of life is with challenges.
The time of the wilderness journey of life comes with the spiritual, emotional, or physical challenge that is never beyond the intervention of God.
Jesus experienced the challenge of temptation in His journey of life.
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 could not escape the experience of the wilderness journey of life to arrive at the center of the divine assignment, no one shall escape the challenges of the wilderness journey of life.
In life, it is how wild a wilderness journey is that will determine how challenging one will engage for the glory of God. 
The deliverance of the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years to the Promised Land could not be through a 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 with no avoidance of challenges.
Navigating the wilderness journey goes through the process and becomes positioned in the promise of God.
The wilderness journey is not a journey that one plans for but is a journey that puts one in the plan of God.
The wilderness journey is not a journey of the comfort of choice or interest. 
The wilderness journey is a journey for everyone in the hand of God to pass through to learn obedience. 
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 a back road or shortcut to avoid the wilderness journey?
The wilderness journey is a journey of trial and temptation that can be an unencouraging route with pain.
Obedience to the direction of God 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 not to arrive at the promised plan of God.
Engage your wilderness journey by knowing that God shall see you through.
The wilderness journey is a wild journey where nothing works but faith. 

Prayer for today: Ask from God that you shall not become a victim of termination navigating the wilderness journey of life.