20/07/2021
Wilderness is always compared to dryness. No one likes to be in dry area or desert for a long course of time. Its the place where we cannot settle. Its always the shaking of our comfort zone. Its the place of thirst and wandering; also the place of fear, confusions, threatening dark roads; also the place where we cannot get any helps.
But in Exodus, God allowed the people of Israelites, the way of wilderness. Its written in Exodus 13:17,18 “17. Then it come to pass, when Pharaoh had led the people go, that God didn’t lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near for God said,“Lest perhaps the people around change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt.” “18. So God led the people around by the way of the wilderness of the Red sea”. So its easy for God to lead them in easiest way and also in the way which is nearer, but God redirected them in the way of Red sea, which means the great giant before them.While I reading this verse, I thought that whether God is good or doing the villain role in the life of Isrealites. Many times in our lives, we would think, why such a kind of happenings that we would never imagine? But its clearly mentioned in above verse, that inorder to save the people of Isrealites from backslidings, he allowed the way of wilderness; though going through the way of land of Philistines is nearer and easy too.
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