A WILDERNESS CALL - BE BACK TUESDAY

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Today is a day of preparation.  Today I enter a three day hiking and camping adventure with my son in a remote area of Llano River State Park.  The weather will be a bit warmer than anticipated, with lows in the mid thirties, and the sun should be shinning.  All in all, ideal conditions for this time of the year.  When my sons advise me of their upcoming adventures, I always say, “Remember God forgives you seventy times seven but Mother Nature only gives you one chance.”  That is my way of saying be prepared.  Why do people believe that a good God is should make life easy?

 Life is not easy, it never was easy, and it will not be easy.  There may be periods of time when one is born into prosperity, but I have found that prosperity and its maintenance, has its own challenges.  Of all creation, humans have the greatest capacity to be prepared and with that blessing comes the challenge of proper stewardship.  We are born into a world that tests us everyday.  God merely encourages us to embrace the challenge, and invites us into a life that more fully embraces the challenge.

 The wilderness invites us to shed ourselves of much of the armor we put on everyday, and test how well we wear the Armor of God.  I’ll be back Tuesday.  GLORY!!!  

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